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Last week saw the launch of two of the most powerful rockets ever flown.
SpaceX’s Starship was launched for its seventh test flight and its first stage booster was successfully caught.
Earlier on the same day , New Glenn , the flagship of Jeff Bezos's space company Blue Origin took its maiden flight.
Blue Origin's entry into the reusable orbital launch market has rekindled interest in a billionaire space race between Elon Musk and Bezos .
O’Neillian approach requires a bit more patience, though its early supporters did not seem to realise it.
In the 1970s , it was widely believed that the Shuttle would fly fifty times a year and have per kilogramme costs to orbit comparable to those we see from Falcon 9 today .
The successor to the L5 Society , the National Space Society , avoids aggressive timetables.
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