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    What will the future of private space travel look like?

    Jul 16, 2020 4 minutes
    Interviewed by Dr Stuart Clark

    HOW BIG A CHANGE IS THIS IN THE WAY WE WILL EXPLORE SPACE?

    We’re starting a whole new chapter in humanity’s quest to move off this planet, to actually start things we’ve seen in science fiction. The SpaceX launch, although it was still bought by government funds, is a huge change.

    It’s something I’ve been waiting for all my career. Before, only governments had the kind of money, could take the liability, and actually had permission to go into space and explore this frontier.

    Now we’ve got a commercial company that has shown it can take an astronaut

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