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pace startup Rocket Lab is one of those tales of entrepreneurial ingenuity that we Kiwis find hard to resist. A self-taught Southland engineer can’t stop tinkering around with homemade rockets in the carpark at his day job. Instead of taking his talents to Silicon Valley, he creates a company that makes rockets at a converted bike factory in Auckland and

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