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How private companies are changing the future of space exploration

via WBUR On Point

Feb. 6, 2020

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By Meghna Chakrabarti and Brittany Knotts

Private companies like SpaceX are testing vehicles for manned space missions. We’ll peer out into the near future and next steps in human space exploration.

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Ariel Ekblaw, founder and lead of MIT Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative. (@ariel_ekblaw)

Charles Bolden, NASA administrator from 2009-2017, and a former astronaut and Marine Corps general. (@cboldenjr)

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