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I've been hoping for a while for more international cooperation on space exploration. Going to space is not cheap, and if several countries pool their resources
by krylon 12y ago
I've been hoping for a while for more international cooperation on space exploration. Going to space is not cheap, and if several countries pool their resources, under ideal circumstances the result should be more science for everyone.
But politics has kind of prevented that. For governments, space exploration seems to be more about showing off than about advancing science.
I hope that in the future, different countries cooperating on missions will become the norm rather than the exception. I know I'm being somewhat optimistic, but this article shows I am not being completely naive. Nice.
- chelch 12y agoI'm pretty sure there is a significant amount of cooperation when it comes to space exploration. Space missions often carry instruments from different countries. For example, the lunar probe that discovered water on the moon, Chandrayaan-1, carried instruments from different countries. Curiosity carried instruments from other countries too, if I'm not mistaken. It's just that you don't read much about this in the newspapers, because newspapers would rather make it look like there's a space race going on.