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Fifty years after Russian cosmanaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to experience the thrill of the final frontier,commercial companies on the cusp of another manned spaceflight milestone-a revolutionary brexkthrough industry that will open up suborbital and orbital space to commercial astronauts.
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Seedhouse, E. (2012). The New Breed of Space Vehicles. In: Astronauts For Hire. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0520-7_5
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