Article 033: What if World Leaders Chose a Space Race Instead of an Arms Race? War or the stars? The choice is ours!
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Reagan's Alien Question, Kennedy's Moon Proposal, Elon Musk's Mars Vision and an Open Letter to the Governments of Earth
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood before the United Nations and said something that still sounds extraordinary today.
He wondered how quickly humanity's differences might disappear if the entire planet suddenly faced a threat from somewhere beyond Earth.
But the most important part of Reagan's speech is often left out when the quote circulates online.
Reagan wasn't announcing extraterrestrial contact.
He was making a point about humanity.
After wondering whether an outside universal threat could make us recognize our common bond, Reagan asked whether an alien force was already among us.
His answer was essentially war itself.
Read Reagan's September 21, 1987 United Nations speech
That raises a much bigger question.
Why would humanity need an alien invasion to realize that we are all living on the same small planet?
What if we found something else to unite around?
What if instead of another arms race, humanity entered a space race?
Not necessarily a space race where one nation has to destroy or dominate another.
A race where countries, companies, universities, scientists and individuals compete to build better rockets, discover better energy technologies, establish settlements beyond Earth, develop new industries and explore places no human being has ever seen.
There would still be competition.
There would still be money.
There would still be national pride.
There would still be winners.
But the finish line would no longer be another battlefield.
The finish line would be another world.
Reagan Wasn't the Only President Thinking This Way
Reagan's alien analogy gets most of the attention because of how unusual it sounds.
But decades earlier, President John F. Kennedy proposed something even more remarkable.
The United States and Soviet Union were locked in the Cold War.
Only the previous year, the Cuban Missile Crisis had brought the world frighteningly close to nuclear confrontation.
The Americans and Soviets were also competing fiercely in space.
Then Kennedy went before the United Nations in September 1963 and asked why the Moon should become another arena for national competition.
He proposed cooperation between the United States and Soviet Union on a joint expedition to the Moon.
Watch the United Nations material on Kennedy's 1963 proposal
Think about what that meant.
The two greatest geopolitical rivals on Earth potentially putting their scientists, engineers and resources toward reaching another world together.
It never became the joint lunar mission Kennedy imagined.
But the idea existed.
And Kennedy wasn't talking about this after the Cold War had ended.
He was talking about it in the middle of it.
The International Space Station Proved Something
Decades later, something remarkably close to that spirit actually happened.
Look at the International Space Station.
For years, astronauts and cosmonauts from nations that sometimes strongly disagreed politically still lived and worked together hundreds of miles above Earth.
Americans.
Russians.
Europeans.
Japanese.
Canadians.
Scientists from many nations.
Different languages.
Different governments.
Different histories.
One laboratory.
One planet underneath them.
Space did not erase geopolitics.
But it demonstrated that cooperation could continue even while serious political disagreements existed below.
Maybe that lesson deserves more attention.
Why Should We Need an Enemy?
Instead of asking:
Would humanity unite if aliens attacked Earth?
Maybe the better question is:
Could humanity unite without needing something to attack us?
What if the common challenge became exploration itself?
Build the safest spacecraft.
Develop the best propulsion system.
Build the first permanent lunar settlement.
Create sustainable agriculture beyond Earth.
Develop closed loop water systems.
Build better radiation protection.
Develop robotic mining.
Build orbital manufacturing.
Create revolutionary energy systems.
Reach Mars.
Explore the asteroid belt.
Build telescopes capable of studying distant Earthlike worlds.
Search seriously for life.
That could still be a race.
But it would be a race toward creation instead of destruction.
A Space Race Would Create Jobs Here on Earth
Sometimes space exploration is discussed as though humanity would simply throw money into the sky.
That isn't really how it works.
Space programs create industries on Earth.
NASA's economic impact analysis for fiscal year 2023 estimated that its activities generated more than $75 billion in economic output in the United States and supported approximately 304,800 jobs.
NASA's Moon to Mars activities alone generated approximately $23.8 billion in economic output and supported roughly 96,500 jobs.
Read NASA's economic impact report
Those aren't hypothetical Martian jobs.
Those are jobs here.
Engineering.
Manufacturing.
Software.
Robotics.
Materials science.
Communications.
Construction.
Transportation.
Research.
Medicine.
Energy.
Artificial intelligence.
Navigation.
Agriculture.
Now imagine what happens if humanity moves from occasional exploration missions toward permanent activity beyond Earth.
Entire industries could emerge that barely exist today.
Elon Musk and the Idea of Becoming Multiplanetary
Whatever anyone thinks about Elon Musk personally, the philosophy behind SpaceX's Mars program overlaps strongly with this idea.
SpaceX describes its long term objective as helping make humanity multiplanetary.
Its Mars plans envision something much larger than astronauts planting another flag.
A permanent settlement would require power generation, resource extraction, propellant production, construction, communications and transportation.
That begins to look less like another Apollo mission and more like the creation of an entirely new economy.
And maybe that is part of what makes the idea so powerful.
People sometimes talk about space exploration as something governments spend money on.
Eventually, it could become something millions of people make their living from.
Imagine the Jobs Created by Another World
Someone would have to build the habitats.
Someone would maintain them.
Someone would design the power systems.
Someone would grow the food.
Someone would build the robots.
Someone would operate mining equipment.
Someone would manufacture replacement parts.
Someone would design clothing for completely different environments.
Someone would build communications systems.
Someone would practice medicine.
Someone would teach.
Someone would write software.
Someone would design vehicles.
Someone would study geology.
Someone would create entertainment.
Someone would eventually start businesses none of us have thought of yet.
The first permanent settlement beyond Earth wouldn't just create astronauts.
Eventually it would require an entire society.
And every technology we develop to keep humans alive in an environment as unforgiving as the Moon or Mars could potentially teach us something about surviving better on Earth.
Water recycling.
Food production.
Energy efficiency.
Waste reduction.
Robotics.
Medicine.
Construction.
Closed ecosystems.
Space could become one of the greatest laboratories humanity has ever built.
There Are Resources Out There Too
Space isn't empty.
Asteroids contain enormous amounts of material.
NASA has discussed asteroids containing iron, nickel and cobalt along with valuable trace elements including platinum group metals and gold.
Read NASA's discussion of asteroid resources
That doesn't mean we're about to tow an asteroid full of gold into Earth's orbit tomorrow.
Getting there is difficult.
Mining it is difficult.
Processing it is difficult.
Transporting material is difficult.
Making the economics work may be even more difficult.
But the resources exist.
NASA is already working on a related idea on the Moon called in situ resource utilization, or ISRU.
Instead of carrying everything from Earth, explorers learn how to use resources already available where they land.
Water.
Minerals.
Materials.
Potential sources of oxygen and fuel.
Materials for construction.
That changes the idea of space exploration completely.
Eventually we stop carrying civilization with us.
We learn how to build civilization wherever we go.
Then We Get to the Energy Question
This may be one of the biggest questions of all.
Moving civilization beyond Earth requires enormous amounts of energy.
Chemical rockets got humanity to the Moon.
But traveling throughout the solar system efficiently may eventually require technologies far beyond conventional propulsion.
NASA is researching nuclear thermal and nuclear electric propulsion.
Researchers continue pursuing fusion.
Scientists study advanced solar technologies.
Others investigate propulsion concepts that would have sounded like science fiction to earlier generations.
And then there is the question that has followed unconventional energy research for generations.
What if we have already discovered something much bigger?
What If the Energy Breakthrough Already Happened?
This is where we have to separate what we can document from what we suspect.
There is no publicly verified evidence demonstrating that a government possesses a machine capable of producing unlimited usable energy from nothing.
But that doesn't mean the question should never be asked.
Governments classify technology.
Militaries operate secret research programs.
Some technologies remain classified for years or decades.
Inventors throughout modern history have claimed breakthroughs involving unconventional energy and propulsion.
Some turned out to be mistakes.
Some were fraudulent.
Some could never be independently replicated.
Others simply disappeared into history without enough evidence remaining to determine exactly what happened.
So what if something genuinely revolutionary was discovered?
What if an energy breakthrough exists somewhere that has never entered widespread civilian use?
We don't know that it does.
But imagine the consequences if it did.
Tesla and the Dream of a Different Energy System
Nikola Tesla inevitably enters this conversation.
Tesla experimented extensively with alternating current, high frequency electricity and wireless transmission of electrical energy.
He imagined transmitting power across enormous distances without the conventional infrastructure we use today.
Tesla also lived during a period when scientists still seriously discussed the concept of an all surrounding medium generally called the ether, or aether.
Modern discussions sometimes blend Tesla's ideas about the ether with something from quantum physics called zero point energy.
They are not the same concept.
Zero point energy is a real concept in quantum physics describing the minimum energy associated with a quantum system.
What has not been publicly demonstrated is a practical device capable of extracting unlimited usable power from the quantum vacuum.
Tesla's wireless power experiments also should not be confused with a machine creating energy from nothing.
He was attempting to transmit energy.
But Tesla represents something important beyond any single machine.
He was willing to imagine an energy infrastructure radically different from the one around him.
Maybe we need more of that thinking.
What If Zero Point Energy Could One Day Be Harnessed?
This is where the question becomes fascinating.
If the quantum vacuum contains measurable physical phenomena, could some future technology interact with those phenomena in a way we currently don't understand?
Science today has not demonstrated a practical zero point power generator.
That matters.
But science also doesn't stop because something hasn't been invented yet.
There was a time when controlled flight sounded impossible.
There was a time when splitting the atom sounded impossible.
There was a time when walking on the Moon sounded impossible.
There was a time when sending a spacecraft beyond the solar system sounded impossible.
So the responsible position shouldn't be to declare every extraordinary energy claim true.
But it shouldn't necessarily be to stop asking questions either.
Build it.
Measure it.
Test it.
Replicate it.
Let independent laboratories examine it.
If it works, humanity should know.
If it doesn't, move on and keep searching.
And If They Already Have It?
Now let's entertain the possibility.
Not as established fact.
As a question.
What if somewhere inside classified research, someone already discovered an energy technology dramatically beyond what the public currently understands?
What if it isn't literally infinite energy, but something so efficient and abundant that it would fundamentally change civilization?
Then the question becomes uncomfortable.
What are we still fighting down here for?
How many conflicts throughout history have involved land?
Resources?
Fuel?
Trade routes?
Economic power?
Access to energy?
Imagine what happens when scarcity begins disappearing.
Imagine abundant clean energy.
Imagine automated manufacturing.
Imagine extraterrestrial resources.
Imagine reusable spacecraft.
Imagine mining beyond Earth.
Imagine energy becoming something civilization no longer has to fight over.
Would every conflict disappear?
Of course not.
Humans fight over ideology, territory, identity, power and countless other things.
But one of civilization's oldest pressures has always been scarcity.
The possibility of reducing scarcity on a massive scale deserves serious thought.
Maybe the Next Race Should Be an Energy Race
Instead of nations racing to build increasingly destructive weapons, imagine them racing to create increasingly powerful clean energy systems.
Who achieves practical fusion first?
Who creates the most efficient solar technology?
Who develops the safest advanced nuclear system?
Who produces the best energy storage?
Who develops the most efficient propulsion?
Who finds a completely new energy source?
And if unconventional technologies such as vacuum energy ever become experimentally viable, who can prove them first?
Publish the measurements.
Let other laboratories reproduce them.
Turn extraordinary claims into ordinary engineering.
That would be a race worth watching.
Because the nation that discovers a truly revolutionary energy source wouldn't simply transform itself.
It could transform civilization.
The Space Race and the Energy Race Are Really the Same Race
Energy determines how far civilization can travel.
Spacecraft need propulsion.
Settlements need electricity.
Mining requires power.
Habitats require heating and cooling.
Water has to be extracted and recycled.
Food has to be grown.
Materials have to be processed.
Industrial civilization on another planet cannot exist without reliable power.
That means the race toward Mars may ultimately become a race toward better energy.
Maybe the breakthrough comes from fusion.
Maybe advanced nuclear technology.
Maybe solar.
Maybe antimatter far in the future.
Maybe some completely different discovery.
Maybe physics still has surprises waiting for us.
Whatever ultimately works, the civilization capable of traveling throughout the solar system will require enormous amounts of energy.
Steven Greer and the Question of Hidden Technology
Steven Greer also enters this discussion because he has spent years making claims about UFOs, classified technology, energy systems and the weaponization of space.
Many of Greer's extraordinary claims remain disputed or unverified and shouldn't be presented as established fact.
But one recurring theme in his work is directly relevant to this article.
What if technologies capable of radically changing energy production or propulsion exist but remain classified?
Again, that is a claim requiring evidence.
But the underlying policy question is worth asking independently of whether Greer's specific claims ultimately prove correct.
If a technology existed that could substantially reduce energy scarcity or revolutionize transportation, at what point would humanity's interest in that technology outweigh the justification for keeping it secret?
National security matters.
But so does the future of civilization.
That is a conversation worth having.
David Icke and Other Alternative Researchers
Many alternative researchers have gone much further, suggesting secret technologies, hidden civilizations, extraterrestrial involvement or suppressed discoveries.
David Icke is one of the most famous figures associated with some of those ideas.
But we don't actually need his more extraordinary theories to make the argument here.
The documented history is already extraordinary enough.
Presidents have discussed humanity's common destiny.
Governments have cooperated in space.
Scientists are developing advanced propulsion.
Private companies are openly planning for Mars.
Asteroids contain valuable materials.
Researchers are studying how to use resources on the Moon.
Fusion research continues.
And governments unquestionably classify advanced technologies.
We can acknowledge the larger alternative research conversation without pretending every claim inside it has been proven.
**Question everything.
But verify everything too.**
A Different Kind of Competition
Countries don't have to stop competing.
Competition can drive technological progress.
The original Space Race demonstrated that.
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik.
America responded.
The Soviets sent Yuri Gagarin into orbit.
America accelerated Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.
Technology advanced at extraordinary speed.
Imagine applying that competitive energy differently.
Who can build the cleanest power system?
Who can make fusion commercially practical?
Who can recycle nearly all the water in a settlement?
Who can grow food most efficiently in a closed environment?
Who can build the cheapest reusable spacecraft?
Who can establish the safest lunar habitat?
Who can develop the fastest propulsion system?
Who can discover the first convincing evidence of life beyond Earth?
Who can build the first permanent settlement on Mars?
Countries could compete fiercely while humanity collectively moves outward.
We Already Have the Beginning of an Agreement
International law already contains some of this philosophy.
The Outer Space Treaty says exploration and use of outer space should be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries.
It establishes freedom of exploration and use while rejecting national appropriation of outer space.
The treaty also places important peaceful use restrictions on celestial bodies and prohibits placing nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or stationing them in outer space.
Read the United Nations overview of the Outer Space Treaty
The philosophy already exists.
The infrastructure has begun.
The technology is developing.
What remains unresolved is how far humanity wants to take it.
An Open Letter to Donald Trump and the Leaders of the Free World
President Donald Trump, and every president, prime minister, king, parliament and government represented across this planet:
We don't have to agree on everything.
We don't have to have the same political systems.
We don't have to share the same religions.
We don't have to speak the same languages.
We don't have to erase our cultures, our borders or the histories that made our nations what they are.
And we don't even have to stop competing.
But maybe it is time to change what we're competing for.
President Reagan once stood before the United Nations and wondered whether humanity might recognize its common bond if confronted by a threat from somewhere beyond Earth.
President Kennedy, in the middle of the Cold War, asked whether the United States and Soviet Union could explore the Moon together.
Today we are asking something different.
Why should we need an enemy before we recognize that common bond?
Maybe humanity needs a new deal with itself.
Not Franklin Roosevelt's historic New Deal repeated for another generation, but a new agreement about where we want civilization to go next.
We the people are tired of watching generations inherit wars from the generations before them.
We are tired of mothers and fathers sending their babies away to battlefields and wondering whether they will ever come home.
We are tired of children growing up without parents.
We are tired of civilians finding themselves trapped inside wars they never asked for.
We are tired of watching enormous amounts of human intelligence, money, engineering and technology being devoted to finding increasingly efficient ways of destroying one another.
There has to be something greater for us to reach for.
And there is.
Look up.
There is an entire universe waiting above us.
So here is another possibility.
Give humanity a new race.
Race us to the Moon.
Race us to Mars.
Race us to fusion.
Race us toward cleaner and more abundant energy.
Race us toward better propulsion.
Race us toward asteroid exploration.
Race us toward the first permanent settlement beyond Earth.
Race us toward discovering life somewhere else in the universe.
Race us toward solving problems that currently seem impossible.
America can compete.
China can compete.
Russia can compete.
India can compete.
Europe can compete.
Japan can compete.
Every nation capable of contributing can bring something to the table, and nations without large space programs today could participate in the industries, science and infrastructure that grow around them.
Competition doesn't have to disappear.
Redirect it.
Compete over discoveries.
Compete over engineering.
Compete over who can build the safest spacecraft.
Compete over who can create the best energy technology.
Compete over who can build the first sustainable settlement on another world.
Compete over who can take humanity farther.
And cooperate where cooperation makes sense.
President Trump and the leaders of the world, imagine announcing that the great powers of this century are beginning a different kind of race.
Not another race toward mutually assured destruction.
A race toward human expansion.
A race toward discovery.
A race toward opportunity.
A race toward freedom.
A race toward the stars.
Think about what that could unleash.
Millions of jobs.
New industries.
New universities and research programs.
New manufacturing.
New energy systems.
New spacecraft.
New medicines.
New materials.
New businesses.
New careers that don't even exist today.
Give young people something enormous to build.
Give engineers impossible problems to solve.
Give scientists places nobody has ever studied.
Give entrepreneurs entirely new economies to create.
Give humanity another frontier.
And most importantly, give the next generation something greater to compete over than another battlefield.
We understand that governments have legitimate disagreements and responsibilities to defend their populations. Space exploration alone cannot guarantee an end to war.
But perhaps it can help create a future in which cooperation and productive competition become more valuable than destruction.
Imagine if the greatest rivalry between the world's most powerful nations became:
Who reaches Mars first?
Who builds the best propulsion system?
Who achieves practical fusion?
Who develops revolutionary clean energy?
Who builds the first functioning lunar industry?
Who discovers the first evidence of extraterrestrial life?
Who opens the next chapter of human civilization?
Let history remember this generation of world leaders for that.
Not for another war.
Not for another generation of grieving parents.
Not for another city destroyed.
Let history remember the generation that looked at thousands of years of human conflict and finally said:
There has to be somewhere better for all this human ambition to go.
And then looked toward the sky.
We don't need every nation to become the same.
We don't need one world government.
We don't need humanity to surrender its cultures or differences.
We need a shared destination.
President Trump and the leaders of the world:
Give us that challenge.
And to the people of every nation, demand that exploration, science, energy and human progress remain part of the conversation about our future.
We have fought over this world long enough.
There is so much more out there for us.
Let's find out what's there.
Let's build.
Let's explore.
Let's discover.
Let's give the next generation a new race.
A race toward exploration.
A race toward discovery.
A race toward freedom.
A race toward the stars.
And Think About the Mothers and Fathers
There is another side to this conversation that statistics about technology and economics can never fully capture.
War isn't just governments moving pieces across a map.
Behind every battlefield are families.
There are mothers and fathers who watch their sons and daughters leave home and wonder whether they will ever walk back through the door.
There are husbands and wives waiting for phone calls.
There are children growing up without parents.
There are families on every side of conflicts who receive news that permanently divides their lives into a before and an after.
For what?
That question has been asked for thousands of years.
Sometimes nations believe war is unavoidable. Sometimes governments believe they are defending their people. History is complicated, and a new space program would not magically eliminate every reason humans fight.
But imagine how different our future could look if even a fraction of the human effort spent preparing to destroy one another were redirected toward building something together.
Imagine telling the next generation:
We need you.
Not because we need another soldier for another battlefield.
We need engineers.
Scientists.
Doctors.
Builders.
Pilots.
Researchers.
Programmers.
Farmers.
Technicians.
Explorers.
Dreamers.
We need you because humanity is going somewhere.
Please Give the Next Generation a Different Race
This is the heart of our open letter.
To the governments of Earth:
Please consider what another path could look like.
Think about every mother who has buried a child because of war.
Think about every father who has watched a son or daughter leave and never return.
Think about the civilians who never chose a battlefield but found themselves living in one anyway.
Think about generations of young people whose futures have disappeared into conflicts that began long before they were born.
Human beings have already paid an unimaginable price for our inability to resolve our differences peacefully.
We cannot promise that exploring space would end every war.
It wouldn't erase hatred.
It wouldn't erase greed.
It wouldn't erase political disagreements.
But perhaps humanity can choose a larger ambition.
Give us a race toward exploration.
Give us a race toward discovery.
Give us a race toward energy abundance.
Give us a race toward freedom and opportunity.
Give us a race toward worlds nobody has ever walked on.
Let the next great competition between nations be about who can build the future instead of who can destroy the most.
Exploration instead of destruction.
Discovery instead of chaos.
Opportunity instead of suffering.
Freedom instead of domination.
A race to space instead of another race to war.
What Would Humanity Gain?
New industries.
New discoveries.
New technologies.
New resources.
New energy systems.
New jobs.
New sciences.
New places to live.
New questions.
And perhaps most importantly, a new direction.
Imagine children growing up watching countries compete over who can establish the first sustainable city on another world instead of watching countries threaten one another with increasingly destructive weapons.
Imagine engineering becoming one of the most celebrated professions on Earth.
Imagine another generation experiencing its own Apollo moment.
Except this time it doesn't end after footprints and flags.
It continues.
Moon bases.
Orbital manufacturing.
Asteroid exploration.
Mars settlements.
Deep space telescopes.
New propulsion.
New energy.
Eventually destinations we cannot currently reach.
We Should Protect Earth Too
Going to space shouldn't mean abandoning this planet.
Earth is the only world we currently know that naturally supports human civilization.
There is no replacement waiting around the corner.
Mars is brutally hostile.
The Moon is brutally hostile.
Space itself is brutally hostile.
Protecting Earth should remain one of humanity's greatest responsibilities.
But space exploration could actually help us do that.
Better climate monitoring.
Asteroid detection.
Energy research.
Water recycling.
Efficient agriculture.
New materials.
Planetary science.
Understanding how rare habitable worlds may actually be could make Earth seem even more valuable.
Maybe saving Earth and exploring space aren't competing goals.
Maybe they're part of the same one.
Reagan's Question Deserves Another Answer
Reagan wondered whether humanity would suddenly recognize its common bond if faced with an alien threat.
Maybe he was right.
Maybe something from outside Earth would instantly change the way we see ourselves.
But hopefully humanity doesn't need that.
Maybe we don't need an alien invasion.
Maybe we don't need another world war.
Maybe we don't need another crisis.
Maybe we need a destination.
Look up.
There is an entire solar system above us.
There are worlds we have barely explored.
There are asteroids we have never touched.
There are scientific questions we haven't answered.
There may be forms of energy we haven't discovered.
There may be physics we don't yet understand.
There may be life somewhere beyond Earth.
There are technologies nobody has invented yet.
There are industries that don't exist yet.
There are jobs nobody has named yet.
There are places where no human being has ever stood.
And there is an entire universe beyond all of it.
Why Are We Still Fighting Down Here?
Maybe that is the simplest question in this entire article.
If humanity eventually develops abundant energy...
If we learn to use resources beyond Earth...
If we build reusable spacecraft...
If we establish permanent settlements beyond our planet...
If we discover completely new industries...
If the solar system eventually becomes accessible to human civilization...
Then what exactly are we still fighting down here for?
Instead of racing for another oil field, imagine racing toward another asteroid.
Instead of fighting over limited resources on one planet, imagine developing the technology necessary to responsibly access resources throughout the solar system.
Instead of perfecting weapons, imagine perfecting propulsion.
Instead of asking which nation can destroy the world most effectively, imagine asking which nation can take humanity farthest beyond it.
And maybe someday fewer mothers and fathers will have to watch their children leave home for a war.
Maybe their children will leave home for a laboratory.
A launch facility.
A lunar settlement.
An observatory.
A spacecraft.
Maybe someday a parent will watch their child disappear into the sky, not wondering whether another human being will kill them, but knowing they are leaving to explore somewhere humanity has never been.
That is a future worth imagining.
Ronald Reagan imagined that an outside threat might remind us that we are one species.
John F. Kennedy imagined Cold War rivals reaching the Moon together.
Scientists are pursuing new forms of energy and propulsion.
Companies are trying to make reusable spacecraft routine.
Governments are returning to the Moon.
Humanity is talking seriously about Mars.
Maybe the next great race has already started.
The question is what kind of race we want it to become.
A race toward war?
Or a race toward something greater?
There is so much more out there for us.
Please, give humanity a new race.
A race toward exploration.
A race toward discovery.
A race toward freedom.
A race toward the stars.
Maybe humanity's brightest future isn't waiting for us somewhere down here.
Maybe it's waiting for us up there.
War or the stars? The choice is ours!
Question. Research. Verify & Discover.
Sources and Further Reading
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library: 1987 Address to the United Nations
United Nations: John F. Kennedy's 1963 UN Address and Joint Moon Proposal
United Nations: Outer Space Treaty Overview
United Nations: International Day of Human Space Flight
NASA: In Situ Resource Utilization
NASA: Space Nuclear Propulsion
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