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How about getting married in space?

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“I’d like to arrange the first weddings in space,” says Jeffrey Manber, American entreprene­ur. “I think space stations are extraordin­arily cool, and I don’t think they have been exploited.”

Today, Manber has carved out a successful niche in the space station ecosystem as chief executive of NanoRacks, a Houston-based startup. NanoRacks has simplified the process of sending experiment­s to the space station.

Sometime back, Manber asked his engineers to look into a quirky idea Nasa discarded: Could used rocket parts left in orbit be used as low-cost space stations? Advances in robotics makes it seem promising.

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Michael T. Suffredini

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