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1.Hardware integration held key challenge to Space Station. Aviation Week and Space Technology, p. 84 (26 Nov 1984 ).
2.Public Broadcasting Service Nova programme ‘The Rocky Road to Jupiter,’ 1987. Compare this remark with Edward Gibbon's description of the state of mind of a citizen of the Roman Empire at the time of the death of Theodosius the Great (AD 395): ‘…Their profuse luxury must have been the result of that indolent despair which enjoys the present hour and declines the thought of futurity. The uncertain condition(s) … discouraged the subjects of Theodosius from engaging in those useful and laborious undertakings which require immediate expense, and promise a slow and distant advantage.’ (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 27.)