Following the appearance of strange layers of vapour on the planet Mars, a report summarizing various cases that could make it seem that life exists on Mars, taking stock of the conquest of Mars and the Moon in the coming years, and the development of space tourism.
Who owns space? Yesterday the White House presented its new space policy. Its goal is to make room for the private sector. NASA’s budget has been cut in half. The conquest of space becomes a business. Illustration by images of models and NASA offices.
After operating the Russian Soyuz spacecraft for eight years, the United States entrusted the transport of its astronauts to the International Space Station to a private company, which created the Crew Dragon capsule. Billionaires and wealthy businessmen build ships capable of sending men into space, once the preserve of a few governments on Earth. Valerie NEAL, curator of the Washington Air and Space Museum, explains that NASA is refocusing on innovation, research and letting companies do business. Christian DAVENPORT, Defence and Space journalist, says that "space is becoming the new Wild West". This sector is sensitive and with private companies it thinks there will be no more framework.
This morning, the Soviet Yuri Gagarin made the first cosmic flight around our planet aboard the Vostok spacecraft. In front of a newsstand, micropavement of Parisians who have just learned the news. Most of them are enthusiastic...
Last summer, Luxembourg passed a law allowing it to be the first European country to authorize the exploitation of space resources. As a result, private companies that claim to develop this activity are flocking to the Grand Duchy to settle there. Interview with Laurent SCHUMMER, lawyer Arendt & Medernach SA, during a meeting on the exploitation and use of space resources: "previously rockets were the States that put them in orbit, now it is a private company that does it. Without NASA funding this would not have been possible for SpaceX, now they are a private player... it takes both..."
In duplex of Brest, Armel KERREST, specialist of the law of space, recalls that initially the States were the only ones to intervene in space. With the multiplication of private economic actors and the multiplication of satellites, he believes that States must establish conventions to regulate the use of space. Space is not yet a jungle but we must prevent this evolution...