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Just as the Transcontinental Railroad united California with the Union and lead to an era of unparalleled prosperity and growth, reusable rockets and the development of new fuels, such as atomic metallic hydrogen, have the potential to connect our world with the other planets in our solar system.

Every since Wan Hu launched his wicker chair to the Moon, we have been trying to follow in his footsteps. In part 2 of this series we will focus on the rocketry technologies that are just around the corner and will become available in the next 5-10 years.

There are only a few countries that have been able to build vehicles capable of breaching the boundary between Earth and the heavens. The idea of travelling to and exploring space has inspired generations. Here are the world leaders in providing access to space today.

Running a startup today is not an easy task. They take time, dedication and capital to turn them into an entity that can survive when the winds of change start to blow.

It has become a tradition on the Next Big Thing blog to look back at how we have done at our predictions and take stock of the previous year. Here is our picks of the 5 most influential technologies of 2017.

Cryptocurrencies are have been touted by their supporter as the inevitable wave of the future – the next step in the evolution of money. Despite the avid support, they have been largely disregarded by regulators as a fad that could never replace conventional currencies. Are they right? Or, are they just scared of losing control over money?

We are bombarded by headlines like “Uber’s Otto Driverless Cars to Replace Humans”, “Millions of Manufacturing Jobs at Risk,” and “Is Your Job About To Disappear?” But are these fears founded? Or, are they just hype to sell more newspapers? The answer is not so black and white.

There has been a lot of talk about how robots are taking our jobs, and rightly so. Automation, both in the form of mechanized robots and artificially intelligent software, are expected to replace about 6% of jobs in the U.S. over the next five years. Here in this article you find the top 5 jobs that AI will replace, and what you can do to protect yourself.

We live in an era where everything seems to be becoming very large, or very small. Growing excitement over the latter has fueled research into both how to make satellites smaller and how to make small satellite missions larger. But, satellites are only useful if they are in space, and getting them there has opened up a whole new niche that Firefly Aerospace intendeds to service.