For government-funded space organisations, their priority still remains advancing science and human knowledge.
BERLIN: Space exploration – a field long dominated by government-funded space agencies – is now seeing an increasingly crowded field of private companies with deep pockets jousting for contracts in the global space race.Blue Origin, started by Amazon founder Jeff BezosWhile private space firms play an important role in finding cost savings, many scientists argue that they will not fully replace the need for publicly-funded space organisations like NASA or the European Space Agency .
“So in the same way that you would fund an opera house or a theatre, or other things that are 'cultural', what we do in the science programme at ESA is very much in that domain.” Government-funded organisations such as the ESA said their priority still remains advancing science and human knowledge. “The reason I would say we know so much about climate change, and the reason we can fight climate change is because of all the missions we send around. Space agencies are the champions of fighting climate change.”
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