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World Questions: Space Politics

World Questions

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The Great Cost of Space Exploration, What Is the Justification?

We are at the beginning of a new industry when we're talking about human space travel, David says. He points to cell phones as an example: back in the eighties they were really only for the wealthy orfa corporati. And now selphones are changing lives around the planet, even in space itself, right? Look at what has happened with satellites. There was a time when it was very large companies or nations could put up a satellite because they were billion dollars. Now we've got countries, universities all around the world putting up cube sats that are significantly powerful.

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