After decades of stagnation, the emergence of private space companies such as Elon Musk’s Space X and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin brought a new dynamic to the space industry. What sounded like a fairy tale yesterday could be reality the day after tomorrow. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the founder of modern cosmonautics, wrote as early as 1911: “The earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot forever live in the cradle.”
However, as plans to transport humans to Mars and then establish permanent settlements on the Moon and Mars develop, so does opposition to the colonization of space.
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