Reading · Part 6
Four scientists give their perspectives on whether the pursuit of space exploration can be justified in the modern era.
The argument that space exploration is an unconscionable extravagance while terrestrial problems remain unsolved is one that has been rehearsed ad nauseam, and it betrays a fundamental misapprehension of how scientific progress operates. The technologies developed for space missions have an extraordinary track record…
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