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NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not an underpaid civil servant he's the ultimate extreme athlete. Red Bull knows how to make space hip.
Mary Roach
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Mary Roach
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 20
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