From space robots to greenhouse gas remote sensing, from placing fish on the space station’s dinner table to mutagenesis of rose essential extraction… The first International Space Science and Scientific Payload Competition kicked off in Foshan, South China’s Guangdong Province on Thursday, attracting youths from across the world to vie for a “ticket” to participate in the China Space Station and the International Space Station (ISS).
Despite an ever complex world where tensions are rising among global players, space cooperation and people-to-people exchanges remain robust and vibrant, bringing a channel for connection that transcends differences and promotes the building of a shared future for mankind, students and experts from the US and Europe told the Global Times at the event.