Science Focus
By Noah Leach
September 3, 2023
Everyone, it seems, is fixated on space exploration right now. NASA, in collaboration with the Canadian, Japanese and European space agencies, is working on the Gateway programme to build a human-tended space station in lunar orbit; and various billionaires are continuing with their plans to establish colonies on Mars and Venus and launch space tourism enterprises.
Assuming they’re successful, these projects would represent the first, tentative steps humanity takes away from Earth and further out into space.