Think Tank onto Space Race

Grant Vaughn:

Think Tank for ideas / opinions.

Topic: our rekindled "Space Race" - your thoughts about the different agencies vying to get new space projects going.

Primer: how does this affect us as Earth Relations?

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Reha Ulku:

Space race was mainly between USSR and USA between 1957-2007.

USSR had finished and became Russia. USA failed in space shuttle project. China had handled (not created) space flight knowledge. EU was never in space race. Epsilons were / are India, Japan.

After these moments:

USA has begun to liquidify NASA and leaving space race to private corporations. There are +s and –s of this process.

So how China has come as a state, Asgardia has come as a corporation.

Asgardia is 10-20 years behind of other corporations. It is not the first one, it will not be the last one.

If EU begins a space station project, she will be the luckiest one, because the one in empty place wins more in space race. And EU had been successful in macro-macro CERN and Airbus projects.

Other private corporations will be specialized. For example Japan corporations had preferred to go to asteroids and have some firsts in this field.

There is an interesting point on discussions about sending spacecraft to space:

EU is not a national organization and she does not really exist anymore after Brexit. But she still works on space topics.

So these will be jurisprudences and ruling cases for the new situations, even for Asgardia.

To me, Asgardia has 100% chance potentially, but she has made it 0% actually in 3 weeks after her declaration.

Ie Asgardia is a good example for negation.

(November 5th, 2016)