Early Thursday morning, Naveen Jain switched on his iPad and watched the Atlantis space shuttle glide onto the runway of the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
The landing elicited "mixed emotions" from him, he said. On the one hand, he was watching a thirty-year chapter in the history of space travel come to a close. Never again would a NASA space shuttle take flight.
On the other hand, the end of the NASA space shuttle program means the dawn of a new era of space travel -- one that may prove very lucrative to him.
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