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Civilians are rushing to sign up to space-travel competitions. Some are looking to push themselves to the limit, while others hope it will help their career ambitions.
Civilians are rushing to sign up to space-travel competitions. Some are looking to push themselves to the limit, while others hope it will help their career ambitions.https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/civilians-are-rushing-to-sign-up-to-space-travel-competitions-some-are-looking-to-push-themselves-to-the-limit-while-others-hope-it-will-help-their-career-ambitions-/slidelist/83070383.cms2021-05-29T22:21:48+05:30
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Civilians are rushing to sign up to space-travel competitions. Some are looking to push themselves to the limit, while others hope it will help their career ambitions.
Zahra TayebMay 29, 2021, 22:21 IST
The International Space Station as seen by astronauts from NASA s space shuttle Endeavour on February 19, 2010.NASA
Meet the British brothers competing for a place on Elon Musk’s SpaceX project
The first civilian mission to the Moon is planned for 2023 - but will Max or Charlie Denison-Pender be on board at lift-off?
10 May 2021 • 7:15pm
Max and Charlie Denison-Pender are engaged in an extraordinary clash that could set one of them on a skyward trajectory
Credit: Rii Schroer
Two brothers locked in rivalry. A single glittering prize. It’s a classic trope as old as human history: Romulus and Remus, Caine and Abel, Liam and Noel Gallagher.
And now Max and Charlie Denison-Pender. These twentysomething middle-class lads from Wiltshire are engaged in an extraordinary clash that could set one of them on a skyward trajectory. In a thoroughly 21st-century iteration of sibling competitiveness, they are vying to orbit the moon.