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Quote of the Day:

“I obviously was not going to blast off in a rocket if this was some sort of Mickey Mouse travel outfit. But the more I inquired and the more I spoke with them directly, the more I realized they were the real deal. It was really possible. And that moment where you think, ‘Holy cow, this is something I could actually do,' it’s a bit of a surreal moment.”

—Mark Pathy, 51, CEO of Mavrik Corp., a Canadian investment firm, who paid $55 million to be among the four members of an all-private citizen spaceflight crew blasting to Earth orbit next year.