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Though only  \na few hundred people have been to space, billions depend on it: much of modern life would grind to a halt without GPS, satellite communications, and imagery from space. Apollo’s most important legacy, we argue (page 8), wasn’t that it put a person on the moon, but that it taught people to manage the kinds of gigantic engineering projects that have made those once miraculous technologies thoroughly mundane. Even a return visit to the moon, which could happen in the next few years, would now be a lot easier (page 48).  \nIf once the biggest problems in space were how to get stuff up there, make it work, and bring it back, today’s problems arise because humanity has gotten all too good at doing so. There could soon be enough imaging satellites to subject everyone on Earth to constant real-time surveillance (page 32); there are fights over an increasingly crowded radio frequency  \nspectrum (page 40); and it can only be a Gideon develop a heat shield to withstand ener  \nmatter of time before someone acquires Licfdii gies no spacecraft had ever encountered  \nboth the means and the motive to attack in chief of (page 76). Valentin Glushko, the dean of  \nsomeone else’s satellite, potentially launch- MIT Technology Soviet rocketry, who doggedly insisted on  \ning the first full-on space war (page 36). Review . designing an engine of a kind nobody else  \nBut if some activities in space have had built, which then powered US rockets  \nbecome mundane, far more remain out of reach. Hence, the bulk after the Soviet Union collapsed (page 22). The visionaries—or, of the stories here are about the miracles people are still trying some would say, delusionaries—who saw a future in mining to make happen. What makes space glamorous, after all, is not asteroids for profit (page 62).  \nthe mere act of getting to where no one has gone before, but the Technology also leaves its mark on culture, so we’ve included imagination, ingenuity, and hubris required to do it. brief excerpts ofthe best astronaut memoirs (page 74), a history  \nAn aura of the mad genius who strives for what others would of how the space age shaped rock music (page 80), and a scicall impossible or foolish clings to many of the people you’ll ence fiction story about a secret rebellion in a satellite cleanup meet on these pages. There’s Dave Masten and his crew, win- crew (page 84).  \nning a NASA competition with a spacecraft cobbled together The overall lesson, though, is a simple one: however routine from, among other things, a discarded trash can lid (page 52). some uses of space become, the things we can’t yet do there The people at Relativity Space, who’ve vowed to 3D-print vir- remain a source of wonder and inspiration. And those things tually an entire rocket in 60 days (page 16). (Their CEO, Tim can quite literally fill a universe.  \nEllis, is also one of our remarkable 35 Innovators under 35, whose profiles you can read if you flip the magazine around.) Breakthrough Starshot’s Philip Lubin, with his plan to use lasers to power a tiny probe to the nearest star at one-fifth the speed of light (page 66). Helen Hwang and her NASA team, who had to  \nIA N ALLEN  \nTHE  \n08  \nIn the shadow of Apollo  \nSpace technology has changed the world, but not in the way the dreamers ofthe 1960s imagined.  \nBy Konstantin Kakaes  \nLAUNCH ~~ ~~  \n14  \nThe race to cheaper launches A short list of promising new technologies and well-meaning failur","cbCaiaBKr54qOqLy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaBKr54qOqLy","pdf",4500725,84,"English","# From the editor\n## The space age in perspective\n# In the shadow of Apollo\n## The race to cheaper launches\n## Building from the ground up\n# Full spectrum dominance\n# Escape\n## Mars invasion 2020\n## The engine that came in from the cold\n# Orbit\n## A more crowded heaven\n## Under a watchful eye\n## How to fight war in space\n## Why return to the moon?\n## The big stuff\n# Issue\n## Next stop: Alpha Centauri\n# Return\n## The write stuff\n## Burning ambition\n## Hello, darkness, my old friend\n## Fiction: In her light","[{\"question\":\"What central question does the special space issue raise?\",\"answer\":\"How space technologies became increasingly normal since Apollo 11, and what new dilemmas arise as humanity becomes better at launching and using them.\"},{\"question\":\"Which everyday technologies does the issue link to satellite space activity?\",\"answer\":\"GPS, satellite communications, and imagery from space that enable modern life to function.\"},{\"question\":\"What major concerns does the issue highlight about the future of satellites?\",\"answer\":\"Potential constant real-time surveillance, disputes over an increasingly crowded radio frequency spectrum, and prospects for space conflict.\"}]","MIT Technology Review Space Issue - Where to? | PDF",1791853973,29]