• By Richard Lawson
    May 11, 2009 5:35 PM 39,063
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    La petite mort for man, a giant hump for mankind

    Privateers rocket to space fifty years after communists
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    NASA Wants to Be Just Like Star Trek When It Grows Up

    [The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches from Cape Canaveral today, shown in an infrared digital photo; image via Getty]


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