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Of life on earth. space is an integral part of society. our way of working only functions with satellites for telecom, for navigation, for earth observation, for weather forecasting, for many things. so, we need the satellites for our daily life. the country that first sent a person into space is crashing back to earth, because of its war in ukraine. if russia doesnt partner up with another nation l or field its own space station, which given the current - circumstances and sanctions i is quite ...

Satellites were launched. 20 years ago, it was just 800. more than 70 countries now have space programmes of their own. china has built its own space station, and others like india, south korea, japan and the uae are well advanced in launching rockets of their own. how do you see it developing? josef aschbacher is head of the european space agency and is determined to keep europe in the new space race. hes had a £2 billion increase in funding, despite the financial squeeze facing governments. s...

There is boring soil. well, dont move it till i see it. - its now 50 years since astronauts were last on the lunar surface. its all over! orange! hey, it is. i can see it from here. soon theyll be back in large numbers and from many different countries. this image from the early days of human space flight was seen across a world riven with strife and conflict. it showed that from space, there were no borders, just one beautiful planet. humanity is poised for its next big leap into the cosmos. th...

Sending up their own rockets. im pallab ghosh, the bbc�*s science correspondent. come with me on a journey into the future of human exploration, and the new space race. long before man had mastered the earth, he lifted _ up his eyes and began to dream of conquering space. _ through the centuries, he nursed the dream. i until today, the dream has substance. - man has crossed the threshold. the first great frontier of the universe. - man has entered space. that man was yuri gagarin of the soviet...

Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. i theyve got the flag up now, and you can see the stars and stripes... for that brief moment, the entire world was as one... beautiful, just beautiful! ..but it was an american flag that was planted on the lunar surface. the underlying tensions were still there. that competition was broken in 1975, when spacecraft from both sides docked high above the earth. a technical and diplomatic triumph. the hatch opened. there was an historic hands...