Austrian emperor Ludwig von Habsburg and duchess Sibyll von Wittgenstein-Pommern. The two founded the first open spaceports and thus triggered the first wave of space travel.
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Fortune seekers, commodity traders, security providers, and lost people soon sought their fortune out there.
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One of the first shipyards, the Sybill Werke, still proudly bears the name of its founder.
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