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Australia needs a place in the space race
Australia has an appetite and market for space-based technology. But we need to boost a small, ad hoc, and unco-ordinated effort.
James BrownThis week an 18-year-old student, an 82-year-old pilot, a 51-year-old private equity guy, and his 57-year-old investor brother rode a commercial rocket flight into space. That may seem like an ordinary sentence to read. It’s really anything but. Fifty-two years on from the moon landing, the global space industry is at an inflection point and Australia’s space industry is just getting started.
Oliver Daemen, from left, Mark Bezos, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and space tourism company Blue Origin, and Wally Funk, right, watch a video replay of their flight experience aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket. AP
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