“New Space” Economic Activity Is Inching Upward

Sometime in the next year or two, a Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo will drop from its unique carrier aircraft, fall to a safe distance and fire up its hybrid rocket engine to take eight humans on a brief excursion beyond the atmosphere. Two of them will be pilots, and the rest will be paying customers...

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