Modern Day Race For Space Exploration

There has been a fierce technology battle over the Space. Space exploration is not novelty, but it has taken another step, on possibility of habitation and new findings which will help human development on earth.

The CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos has announced his stepping down as the CEO of Amazon to focus more on, Blue Origin, a spaceflight which will be going to Space on July 20^th. He has announced that he will be travelling with his brother to explore and has put a seat up for auction, for the journey. The New Shepard booster of Jeff, was named after first US citizen who flew to into Space, Alan Shepard and second to Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin in the world, who is a Russian.

The race for Space keeps a high intensity, it feels like where the modern power revolves. Chinese Tianhe, which is 16.6m long and 4.2m wide, contains life support technologies and living quarters required by visiting astronauts. President Xi Jinping has shown a great support for “space dream”, China was blocked from participating in ISS, which comprises of Russia, the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan. ISS is due to retire on 2024, making Tiangong the only Space station in Earth’s orbit, edging closer to the dream.

Tesla inventor, Elon Musks who is widely known by his exploits on electric cars. He had never hidden his intention to exploits Space, his private spaceflight, starship, was to make life multi-planetary.  In 2016, he expressed his view on making history on Mars, he believes that Mars will be sustainable for habitation, which will need large number of people in order to become self-sustaining.

The race is getting highly tense, as Space is on the findings of becoming a “new haven” and can possibly find solution to the problem humanity is facing on earth. It is good that the world is making advancement towards, and unfortunate that Africa is left out on important development to human kind, this is something you thrive on, not being democratically on undemocratic.