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Jeff Bezos’s space company is about to launch New Glenn, a reusable rocket intended to rival SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, for the ...

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In the first two years of the covid-19 pandemic, numerous New Scientist covers were dedicated to the global emergency caused ...