“When I was a kid, it was low-Earth orbit. Now, the frontier is out near the asteroid belt, and the moon and Mars are becoming part of where humanity just hangs out, maybe not yet as people, but with robots.”
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Space Report author
Jonathan McDowell, describing how space exploration gradually expands in scope. “Meanwhile, low-Earth orbit is so normalized that it doesn’t take a space agency to deal with it. You just call SpaceX,” he adds.
