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MAY A SPACE BUSINESS - ANDREW MAY KARTONIERT (TB)

Dreams  schemes and opportunity as space opens for tourism and commerce.Twentieth century space
exploration may have belonged to state-funded giants such as NASA  but there is a parallel
history which has set the template for the future.Even before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon 
private companies were exploiting space via communication satellites - a sector that is seeing
exponential growth in the internet age. In human spaceflight  too  commercialisation is making
itself felt. Billionaire entrepreneurs Elon Musk  Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have long
trumpeted plans to make space travel a possibility for ordinary people and those ideas are
inching ever closer to reality. At the same time  other companies plan to mine the Moon for
helium-3  or asteroids for precious metals.Science writer Andrew May takes an entertaining 
in-depth look at the triumphs and heroic failures of our quixotic quest to commercialise the
final frontier.

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