Five new space races
OCT 06, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.021549
Foreign Policy : It’s been 50 years since Sputnik triggered a decades-long competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to rule the heavens. But if you thought the space race was over, think again. Foreign Policy magazine suggests that there are new contests for space dominance in racing to the Moon, putting humans on Mars, anti-satellite weapons creating a new global navigation system, and building the next generation of spacecraft. Ironically not only is Russia, China, and India involved in these dominance games, put so is private industry.
© 2007 American Institute of Physics
