instead of continuing to build chemical rockets, nasa should research advanced propulsion. The Large Hadron Collider will be the rosetta stone explaining the energy matter interface, allowing creation of psuedo matter, having the mass and "solidness" of matter that can be turned on and off like a switch, which in turn will lead to force fields which in turn will lead to antigravity.

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