Over the first quarter of the 21st century, two major trends have transformed the global space industry. The first is the rapid rise of China’s space program, which only flew its first human to orbit ...
The moon itself does not wax and wane as frequently as American public opinion on its space program. The Artemis 2 astronauts barely gulped their first taste of fresh Pacific air before a chorus of ...
Japan’s national space agency – the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) – was established in 2003, but the history of Japan’s space programs dates all the way back to early developments in ...