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Companies that run hotels, build cars and make TV are beginning to operate in space. This in-orbit economy could finance deeper space exploration
Space
21 August 2019
By Leah Crane
Sending products into orbit on SpaceX rockets may be a good PR moveSpacex/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire/Shutterstock IN LATE June, a SpaceX rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. As well as the usual supplies and a few satellites, it was carrying some curious items. Among the payload were a football and six bags of green slime. In October, a similar rocket will carry up an oven designed for baking cookies. A hodgepodge of objects, to be sure, but they have one thing in common: all were sent up by companies that seemingly have no business in space, …
Article amended on
23 August 2019
We clarified when DoubleTree’s cookie oven is due to be sent to space