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Space travel for billionaires is the surprise topic with bipartisan American support – but not from Gen Z

  • Written by Joseph Cabosky, Associate Professor of Public Relations, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
imageBoth Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson successfully rode to space on rockets made by their private companies Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, respectively.AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez

With Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson both flying to space in craft made by their own private companies, July 2021 was perhaps the highest-profile month for space in years. But...

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