Humanity’s Space Future Comes with a Heftier Price Tag, New National Academies Decadal Survey Finds
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The National Academies recommend a significant investment in further studying how space affects living things.
Image credit: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
The already fast-growing space economy is expected to explode over the next decade, with multiple commercial space stations in low Earth orbit, lunar habitats, crewed missions to Mars, space-borne investigations of dark matter, cultivations of extraterrestrial plants and vegetables, and a host of other expected activities for which NASA needs to better prepare.