Prática de Shadowing: Space Invaders: the entrepreneurs taking humans into space - Aprenda a falar inglês com o YouTube
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There are planets we have only dreamed of, worlds we've barely glimpsed.
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There are planets we have only dreamed of, worlds we've barely glimpsed.
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A whole universe that billions will never get to explore.
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But in a small desert town in California,
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a new mission has begun.
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And it's called New Space.
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I'm definitely going to fly to space.
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It's going to be a lot of fun.
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And that condition confirmed.
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There's a trailblazing generation of entrepreneurs for whom the sky is no longer the limit.
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There's a huge expanse out there and there are only a few people that are going after it.
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Governments don't have the money today,
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but the private sector does.
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They aim to explore and exploit the solar system.
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We are absolutely part of this new space race.
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And find their fortunes in the stars.
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Dawn in the Mojave Desert.
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Stu Witt is on his daily commute.
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The desert landscape makes you think differently.
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It's not hard to imagine what Mars might look like.
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You can feel pretty insignificant in a place like this.
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13 years ago, Stu took over a small civilian airfield at Mojave.
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Tower, Mojave 1.
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What are your ceilings right now?
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Under his leadership, it's become known as the Silicon Valley of space exploration.
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I believe it is in our DNA to explore.
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And I would make the case that we're travelling on spaceship Earth right now.
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and maybe it's time to go outside the hatch and see what's outside.
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In 2004, Mojave became the USA's first commercial spaceport.
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If you look all the way to the left, you see stradolaunch.
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Then you have X-Core Aerospace,
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you have scale composites, and then behind that you have a cluster of Virgin Galactic,
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Mastin Space and Interorbital and all of these various space companies that come to Mojave to test their wares.
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Many of these pioneering firms have set up shop in primitive hangars dating from the Cold War.
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They're banking on being among the first to profit from the dawning of a whole new era.
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In 2010, the commercial space industry consisted of just 100 companies worldwide.
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There are now over 800.
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And by 2030, the industry is expected to turn over 600 billion US dollars a year.
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For those who want to strike it big in this modern day gold rush,
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Mojave is the place to be.
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The biggest asset out here is this fabulous reservation of airspace that's right above us
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that is completely dedicated for research, flight testing.
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So if you will, we have an elevator to space.
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One of the front runners in this new space race is Virgin Galactic.
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They aim to be the world's first private company taking wealthy passengers to the edge of space the edge of space.
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Enrico Palermo is in charge of building the craft that will get them there.
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This is where we're assembling the second spaceship to.
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Here you go, it's the center of the world right now.
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I pinch myself every day.
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I've had a long-term passion for space,
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you'll probably qualify as a space geek I guess.
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In fact, my wife and I left Australia in pursuit of a career in the space industry.
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Virgin are rebuilding Spaceship Two after a test flight in 2014 ended in tragedy,
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destroying the craft and claiming the life of one of its pilots.
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It's a stark reminder of the dangers facing the pioneers of commercial space travel.
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Which part's not fitting?
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We're developing a spaceship that can fly you and me into space.
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And that, I think, is going to be transforming for us here on Earth.
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Grounded until their new spacecraft is ready,
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Virgin Galactic seem a long way from their ultimate goal.
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But that hasn't stopped them capitalising on a lucrative new market.
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700 people have already booked their place on Spaceship Two,
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handing over a total of $80 million.
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50 meters from Virgin Galactic's giant hangar,
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the fresh-faced employees of Mastin Space Systems run a very different operation.
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I'm getting intermittent telemetry here.
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I need to reboot.
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They weren't even born when man last went to the moon,
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but that doesn't mean they can't aim for it.
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They follow down all the service plumbing and meet here and they go down.
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23-year-old engineer Ben has been working on Mastin's rockets since leaving college two years ago.
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This is the propulsion system for a potential lunar lander.
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We're doing a lot of things that no one else is doing,
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you know, like the pioneers.
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So I guess, yeah, we're venturing on the frontiers of space.
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I had to take something apart to fix something that I didn't do right the first time.
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Ellen started as an intern just last year.
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It's exciting to be a part of, for sure.
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I'm 23.
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I'm very young.
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This is my first job.
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I'm pretty sure if I worked at a large company,
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they would not say, hey, go build this rocket.
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If there was something that was on the moon that I knew that I worked on,
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that I had a hand in building, that would be incredible.
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That would be awesome.
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They may be young, but Ellen and Ben are helping develop cutting edge technology.
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Their rockets not only go up,
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but also use artificial intelligence to stop,
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maneuver, and find exactly the right spot to land.
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So they can be used again and again.
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Any place there's not a runway,
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or there's not enough air for wings to work,
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this is the sort of technology that you're gonna need to have.
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Overseeing this enthusiastic workforce is Chief Executive Sean Mahoney.
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Today, he's come to watch the test launch of their latest rocket.
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When we're flying, I'm not entirely sure that I breathe.
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We need this test to go well so
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that we know the vehicle's ready for the customer who's showing up in a couple weeks.
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Mastin doesn't rely on external investment.
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The company is run as a profit-making business.
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Their customers include NASA, and they have a $3 million contract with the US Department of Defense.
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We are absolutely part of this new space race.
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This isn't just get there,
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it's find a way to get there so that you can stay there,
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so that you can keep going there.
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This isn't a one-shot business anymore looking to build a sustainable business that will carry on over time.
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With the test launch one hour away,
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Ellen and the team carry out their final checks.
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Roger that, on our way.
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Just down the road, another company's betting on the confidence of youth to help send people to space.
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In charge of the propulsion system for their radical new rocket is 26-year-old engineer Jeremy Voigt.
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This rocket engine is kind of my baby.
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I'm definitely going to fly with it.
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Everybody in the company gets to fly to space
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and it's pretty cool that I get to build the engines that are going to take me there.
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X-Core has been developing their engine for the last seven years years.
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There are no experts in the field,
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there aren't textbooks that say
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when I do it this way this is how you run all of these lines
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and make sure that everything is this size and you start it in this way.
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None of that exists so we have to make all that up.
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If the test is successful Jeremy will be one step closer to his ultimate dream,
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reaching the cosmos.
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Red team, spill bucket position under fuel air lead line.
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It's an adrenaline rush to flip the switch and actually start the system running.
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Control, fuel open, push.
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All right, extend bypass, fuel open, push.
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All right, dual cold flow, 10, 9, chill.
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Lux Prime.
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6, 5, 4, 3, 2, arm.
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It would seem you have no drive, yes.
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All switches are off and safe.
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I want to vent tanks,
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I don't want to look at data.
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You always have to be prepared to fail.
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I'm honestly really not disappointed.
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Nothing got damaged.
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All of my friends are still here.
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That's all great, and we're going to continue to do more stuff.
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Day's not over yet.
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Base shields down for tower lower.
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If you walk in these hangars, they're kits.
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They're not old guys like me.
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They're kits, and you see the sparkle in their eye.
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Whether they succeed or fail,
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they have the will to try.
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You know, we're explorers out here.
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We're innovators.
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We endorse the taking of risk.
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And in doing so, sometimes it comes with failure.
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Igniter.
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OK, moving to the engine start page.
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Pilot, check your control box.
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I don't care how many times you go through this sequence,
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my heart rate goes up a little bit right now.
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With every test launch, the entrepreneurs at Mojave shoulder the risk of failure.
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Six, five, four.
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But their eyes are on the potential rewards.
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There it is.
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That's what we want to see.
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If they can perfect technology like these precision landing rockets,
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a multitude of new business opportunities beckon,
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from asteroid mining to moon colonization and beyond.
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Just another day in Mojave, yeah.
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Thank you, sir.
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This is the technology being demonstrated right here that is how humans will first set foot on Mars.
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It may be ours, it may not be ours,
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but when humans go to Mars,
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vertical landing is how it's going to be done.
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And our hope is that over the next generation,
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thousands will have the opportunity to go to space.
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Because when you talk to the people who have been,
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they're changed, profoundly changed from that experience.
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They realize just how fragile Earth is.
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I think it's time to go out there again,
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to try things that haven't been done before.
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Why not?
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Think what we learn.
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- Explore and exploit - Explorar e explorar
- Commercial space industry - Indústria espacial comercial
- Private sector - Setor privado
- Spaceport - Porto espacial
- Flight testing - Teste de voo
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- Spacecraft - Naves espaciais
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