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Consumer | It’s a momentous day when anybody goes into space. Even when the crew consists of Jeff Bezos, his brother, some random hedge fund brat and aviation legend Mary “Wally” Funk.

We all grew up on Star Trek and all that. Visions of a sci-fi utopia. And now it’s the future. It’s finally here. It’s been a looooong road…

Whether or not you like it is another question though.

Jackson Ryan made a point of encapsulating some of the complications of all this spacey business in his subheads at CNET. With the important bits aside, Ryan moved onto The edge of infinity, a...

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