超越地球的渴望：人类太空探索的新竞赛与深层意义

How we deal with all that is, literally, up in the air. At the moment, a relatively small group of players in human spaceflight have an outsize role in determining the path forward, with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk standing as the most conspicuous example. But shrugging off the drive to leave Earth as an itch for exploration and domination that only nation-states and the ultrarich can scratch won’t cut it any more. Now is the time for everyone who cares about space exploration, no matter their backgrounds, to advocate for their own visions of our offEarth future—before it is decided for them. The new space race During the Apollo era, the justification for blasting astronauts into space was clearcut: brinkmanship. …