Space education plays an important role in affecting how humanity engages with the cosmos. There are many ways to teach people about space – through…
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What are you doing to develop solar power off-planet?
Whatever humanity does off-planet, it will depend on energy. How will we power our activities as we leave the friendly confines of Earth? One obvious…
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Though the term “space race” may be overused, there’s little doubt that international competition in space is heating up. One objective over which countries are…
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There is renewed interest nowadays in space mining. There was similar interest in space mining during the Cold War, when international agreements were developed to…
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The Moon Treaty was designed to regulate various space activities, including resource utilization. The Moon Treaty, however, is of questionable use – it has few…
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Blockchains are decentralized systems of ledgers that record transactions. They contain chains of “blocks”, batches of validated transactions, which cannot be altered without also altering…
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