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August 04, 2014

Captains of industry explore space's new frontiers
Paris (AFP) Aug 03, 2014
With spacecraft that can carry tourists into orbit and connect Paris to New York in less than two hours, the new heroes of space travel are not astronauts but daring captains of industry. This new breed of space pioneers are all using private money to push the final frontier as government space programmes fall away. Times have changed. Once the space race was led by the likes of the US space agency NASA that put the first man on the moon in 1969. Today it is entrepreneur Elon Musk - the fo ... read more

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