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So far, only the United States has been able to deploy a robotic surface exploration vehicle on Mars. No other country has been able to replicate this success. Europa has twice tried to land rovers on the surface of the Red Planet and twice failed. The USSR landed the Mars 3 spacecraft on Mars...

Speaking of the "agreement" between the US government and aliens, Ashed said the aliens wanted to work with American agents to study the "fabric of the universe."

Every country aims to make a contribution to space exploration. Maybe one day we could send there first permanent settlement. In the UK space industry begins to develop - Sky Hy can be used for the investigation of the earth's magnetic field. Or nano rockets for launch simulation as said on...

After successful launching to ISS, SpaceX continues working on Starship which is the second stage of SpaceX's Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) reusable space transport system. The second stage will receive six Raptor engines, the first one - 31.

In the USA the space industry is developing rapidly - SpaceX, NASA, and many others while in other countries the industry has only begun to grow. Skyrora, a private space launch vehicle development company with a research center in Ukraine. Skyrora is working on creating launches vehicles such...

SpaceX has planned to carry out at least 7 space launches in November. And tomorrow the company planned to deliver a third-generation American military GPS satellite to Earth's orbit. So they are developing rapidly.

They also signed a contract with NASA to use US rockets thus refusing the Soviet Soyuz rocket.

So we are like dementors in Azkaban?

OSIRIS-REx has been in Bennu's orbit since December 2018, scanning the asteroid and collecting as much data as possible. It is due to take off in March 2021, samples in tow, and then reach Earth on September 24, 2023. Research on the mission could be critical over the next 100 years, as Bennu's...

Maybe the water discovery can prove that Moon was a place suitable for life a million years ago, but it doesn't mean it can be now. I mean yes, we can use water to produce rocket fuel and just drink it, but that is hardly enough for the real colonization, for humans at least.