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Final frontier beckons for researchers

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Cheap spaceflight set to transform science, industry claims.

Spaceflight could soon be opened up to hundreds or potentially thousands of researchers rather than just an elite few, said experts at a space-research conference in Boulder, Colorado, this week.

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