'Earth sure looks like a perfect world': First non-professional astronauts walk in space
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- Sep 12, 2024
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There is no shortage of problems on Earth in need of money to solve them.
So many watching this spacewalk will question if it is a wise use of resources. But others will celebrate this as a boundary broken - saying this is what innovation and enterprise looks like.
Government space agencies want private companies to shoulder the financial burden of expensive space travel, as humans get closer to permanent settlements on the Moon, or more Mars exploration.
And - as well as the symbolic achievement of taking humans further than any programme since the Apollo missions in the 1970s - the Polaris programme is also doing science.
In one case, they have teamed up with the US Air Force Academy to investigate low-Earth orbit botany.
In short, that's how microgravity and fungus affect root growth, so we can understand plant growth for providing food on the Moon or Mars. They also claim it could improve plant growth and food production on Earth.
And in general, when it comes to what does space do for us, many still point to innovations from Nasa’s Apollo programme - saying it meant that things like satellite communications and laser technology developed faster.
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