Today's highly successful space race "is not something for two billionaires to be directing," says Sanders, who favors the government spending taxpayer money to do the same damn thing (but more slowly).
For Biden, "build back better’" apparently means eyes on everything in the economy.
Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule carried the 90-year-old former Star Trek actor and three crewmembers 66 miles above the Earth's surface.
The company successfully launched four amateur astronauts into orbit as part of its privately financed "Inspiration4" mission.
Powerful companies attempting to get government agencies to suppress competition means consumers could lose out.
Bezos pitched in by creating an online marketplace of cheap consumer goods that people can get delivered to their homes in two days flat.
Mocking penis-shaped rockets is no substitute for holding the feds accountable for a looming fiscal crisis.
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After returning from space yesterday, Jeff Bezos thanked Amazon customers who made his fortune possible.
May our new space billionaires produce spinoff technologies for the rest of us to enjoy in due time!
Billionaires are going to space. They will help us get there too.
From SpaceX and Tesla to Uber and Lyft, many of the most successful companies thrived without the government's stamp of approval.
Don't let naysayers fool you. Richard Branson's space flight is a boon for society.
Private space companies' efforts are a boost to the government's own space programs, in addition to being objectively cool.
The drug bust blurs the line between military operations and civilian law enforcement.
Regulators haven't kept up with the times when it comes to the changing nature of ventures into space.
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In a glimpse of a gloriously rule-breaking future, contraband has boldly gone where more is sure to follow.
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Israel and the United Arab Emirates pledge to cooperate in space, potentially paving the way for a joint mission to the Moon or beyond.
The Trump administration has expanded a bipartisan drive to commercialize more of NASA's space operations.
Two American astronauts splashed down to Earth after over 60 days aboard the International Space Station
Competition is cutting the cost of space travel to a fraction of what it was.
The horses used to belong to the Air Force, which makes only slightly more sense.
Today's Crew Dragon launch marks the first time a private company has sent humans into orbit.
The "privatization" of space has already expanded the possibilities of the cosmos for all mankind far beyond what six decades of federal bureaucracy could.
Aerospace pioneer and SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan on the dawn of private space travel.
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Was rocketry pioneer Frank Malina written out of some histories of space exploration for his political sins?
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People are happier, healthier, and wealthier because freer markets have opened the floodgates of innovation, research, and development.
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That seems like a bit of an overreaction.
If the Space Force goes down before it ever got up on its feet, that's probably for the best.
It's a reminder that space exploration is anything but safe.
Is another bureaucracy really going to solve the problem?
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