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1) According to the author, President Nixon's original goal for the space shuttle program
was to

A. detract attention from the pending Watergate scandal

B. ensure the United States would become a more powerful nation than the Soviet Union

C. make space travel less expensive

D. reduce the amount of material waste involved in space travel

E. allow earthlings to better understand our universe