Renewed hopes for humanity in space

Enlightened leadership, guided by commonly agreed laws and practices that have served states and peoples for decades, and a recognition that we share a fragile global commons like outer space as custodians, not just for ourselves but for future generations, is, frankly, the only realistic way forward for the sake of humanity.

NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, and Mike Hopkins, and astronaut Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency—who constitute the crew of NASA's Crew-1 mission—inside SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. Photograph courtesy of NASA & SpaceX

Opinion

BY KUAN-WEI CHEN, STEVEN FREELAND AND RAM JAKHU

November 30, 2020

The successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station

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