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This year marks half a century since the first astronauts landed on the moon, an incredible feat that saw the US cement its space race victory over the Soviet Union.
These days, there is talk of a new space race between the US and China, which recently landed a probe on the far side of the moon and has ambitious plans to send people there. But framing the new era of exploration beyond Earth as a nationalistic competition is an error. The superpower monopoly of space is over – increasingly, it is about the little guy too.
Take SpaceIL, the Israeli…
