The debris is essentially the residue of hundreds of rocket launches, exploration missions and other man-made objects left circling Earth.

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Bigelow, who launched a small prototype of the module in 2006 after licensing the patent from NASA, will rely on Boeing Co. and Southern California rocket developer Space Exploration Technologies to provide transportation.

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The list of rich men obsessed with space exploration is as long as an Apollo rocket.

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