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NOVA AFTER DARK: “SPACE: THE FINAL CORPORATE FRONTIER” Good evening, beautiful insomniacs, and welcome back to the show. I’m your host, Nova, and boy do I have a cosmic story for you tonight. So on this day in 2020, SpaceX launched Crew Dragon Demo-2 from Kennedy Space Center — and here’s the wild part — it was the first crewed orbital spacecraft launched from the United States since 2011. Think about that for a second. We went nine years without launching Americans into space from American soil. That’s not a space program, that’s a participation trophy. It’s like saying “We invented basketball, but for nine years we just watched other people play it and occasionally asked to borrow their gym.” ...