There’s been plenty of blowback about billionaires in space. Bezos, one of the world’s richest men, has funded Blue Origin almost solely out of his own pocket. And the way things in the commercial space industry are shaking out has critics concerned that the ultra-wealthy view outer space as their […]
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SpaceX’s Inspiration4 launches four people to orbit in company’s first-ever tourism mission
The launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida was dramatically illuminated with spotlights against the night sky, and when the SpaceX rocket’s nine engines fired up just after 8 pm ET it flooded the surrounding wetlands with a blaze of light as it soared into the upper atmosphere […]