Here’s What We’ll Do in Space by 2118 - Facts So Romantic
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In a mere 60 years, we of Earth have gone from launching our first spacecraft, to exploring every planet and major moon in our solar system, to establishing an international, long-lived fleet of robotic spacecraft at the Moon and Mars. What will we do in the next 100 years? With such rapid expansion of capability, it may seem difficult to tell what the next 60 years will bring, much less the next century. But we never do anything in space without first imagining what we could do, so in that spirit, here is an attempt to predict—and nudge us into—the future. An artist’s conception of the Titan Saturn System Mission, including an orbiter, boat-like lander, and atmosphere-exploring balloon. European Space AgencySo far, almost all of our exploration of worlds beyond Earth has been through (...)