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In Focus: Space Race 2.0

By Victor Stanovoy · Updated 3 September 2026 · 1 min read

Most people know about the first space race, which was when the US and USSR were racing to go to space and be the first. And probably you heard that the Russians won by sending the first satellite and the first person to space (Gagarin). Although NASA sent the first people to the moon, they were a bit too late with that, but they still achieved the impossible.


What is the Space Race 2.0


In a past article (http://bit.ly/4myiJSh), we wrote about the Artemis II mission where 4 astronauts were sent around the moon, which was the first moon mission in the past 50 Years. But NASA is not the only company that aims to make a village/city on the moon, as the Chinese and the private company SpaceX are also trying to do so. This space race is not really seen as a competition but as an opportunity to get new, great technology. If both China and America are going to develop revolutionary technology that will let us live on the moon, we will develop to the point where we can travel to Mars.

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