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With more than a trillion dollars spent since NASA’s inception, many people wonder exactly how much bang taxpayers are getting for their buck. Space travel is a hugely expensive endeavor, especially when you consider that only a handful of humans have ever been able to do it.

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While the late Richard Gillis was mayor of Ashland from 1977 to 1990, he called the town the "Center of the Universe." The phrase stuck and is still being used today. Town officials display the slogan on their business cards and there is even a brewery in Ashland called Center of the Universe.

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