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How will ordinary people travel to space in the future?

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Peter Hague
Jul 30, 2021
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At present, we are watching wealthy individuals fly into suborbital space for $250,000 and up, and fly into orbital space for millions. At some point in the coming decades, people without such sums of money to hand will be able to fly into space. Here I describe what that might look like.

The high cost of orbital flight is because, for the moment, the pa…

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