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Stan Rudenko is chief executive of Aspire Space, a company in Abu Dhabi that aims to build rockets entirely in the UAE. Victor Besa / The National

Abu Dhabi businessman raised in Soviet space town on mission to launch rockets in UAE

Stan Rudenko wants to build fully reusable launch system

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