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One giant leap for space privatization

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Monday's successful Crew Dragon capsule launch heralds the culmination of nearly two decades of efforts to privatize US space missions, as SpaceX and Boeing compete to take over low Earth orbit transit duties from Russia. Plus, China scores an economic coup with the signing of the world's largest free trade deal in the Asia-Pacific region while the US is left on the sidelines.

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