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CalTech professor and JPL founder Dr. Theodore von Karman
       described the velocities required for exploring most of the solar
       system as so high they can only be achieved by developing nuclear 
       propulsion.  See page 4 of his 1962 paper "Introductory Remarks
       On Space Propulsion Problems."

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