Thus began the modern space age and the promise of future space exploration.

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Mr. Dudley is bullish on oil exploration in the fracking age, the ultra-deepwater age, the oil-sands age.

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The Renaissance and the golden age of exploration brought forth a stricter regime and hot-off-the-deck maps from Portuguese and Spanish explorers.

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The later Age of Exploration was made possible by this Medieval innovation.

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