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    BILLIONAIRE SPACE RACE: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE CLIMATE?

    Sep 08, 2021 3 minutes
    by JOCELYN TIMPERLEY

    Space travel made international headlines in July as both Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Virgin boss Richard Branson flew to space in craft made by their own companies. Not to be outdone, Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to launch an all-civilian crew into orbit in September.

    Commercial space travel is clearly firing up, and is predicted to become big business. Branson’s Virgin Galactic plans to begin regular commercial services in 2022, and already has 600 reservations at around $250,000 a ticket. According to a recent analysis from

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