"I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image."
"For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind."
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Source: Umberto Saba (1998). “Songbook: Selected Poems from the Canzoniere”
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