On the Money: Peter Beck, Miss Takes, Adrian Orr in the wild, and more

On the Money: Peter Beck, Miss Takes, Adrian Orr in the wild, and more
On the Money chronicles the "Miss Takes" of the week. (Image: NZME/Supplied/Jacques Steenkamp)
Dileepa Fonseka
On The Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.Rocket Lab founder Peter Beck's speech prompted a bit of giggling in Parliament last week, but it probably shouldn’t have. At Rocket Lab’s annual event at Parliament, Beck made a pitch for New Zealand to lift its space ambitions.The Rocket Lab CEO said the global addressable market for aerospace technology was $2.3 trillion a year – currency unspecified – and suggested it was “perfec...

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