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CHAPTER 4

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Everyone complains that it has all been done before, but we haven’t even begun. There’s an incredible amount of new tricks up good people’s sleeves.

TIBOR KALMAN, GRAPHIC DESIGNER

If you are feeling cramped by business opportunities here on Earth, have you considered the potential gains from businesses providing services for people and companies working in outer space?

The founders of a California start-up called Inversion have the goal of changing what outer space is used for, to expand what we could think of as the space economy. The gain? “You could do these cool things—whether it be asteroid mining or lunar sample return or ...

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