From the moment we looked up from our foraged food to stare across the savannah, we have been natural wanderers. From the plains to the mountains. Beyond to the steppes and ancient forests, we traveled – in groups and sometimes alone.
In 1969, we stepped onto another world. One man took a step, a single step and he did it for all of us. We all, as a species took our first step into the frontier of space. And us, back on Earth, looked up at the Moon with our naked eyes, from our perch in the savannahs, in the mountains, steppes and deserts – we all looked and wondered, how far can we go?
Since that day, we have looked back in time to the origins of the Universe, we have sent rovers to Mars and landed on some of the most hostile environments in our Solar System.
The journey is just beginning. For all of us, the frontier is in our future voyages across the deep – into the vastness of the Universe. We are now trying to put all the pieces in place. For everything we have here on Earth – hair dryers, dish washers and socket wrenches, they all need to be redesigned, reengineered and tested for use in space. The economic benefit of space is enormous.
Our first hint of the economic capacity of space should be the fact that NASA is the only federal department in the United States government that has a positive return on investment – it actually makes money for the taxpayers.
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