Hayabusa2 and the unfolding future of space exploration | Bryan Alexander - 0 views
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What might this tell us about the future? Let’s consider Ryugu as a datapoint or story for where space exploration might head next.
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There isn’t a lot of press coverage beyond Japan (ah, once again I wish I read Japanese), if I go by Google News headlines. There’s nothing on the CNN.com homepage now, other than typical spatters of dread and celebrity; the closest I can find is a link to a story about Musk’s space tourism project, which a Japanese billionaire will ride. Nothing on Fox News or MSNBC’s main pages. BBC News at least has a link halfway down its main page.
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Hayabusa is a Japanese project, not an American one, and national interest counts for a lot. No humans were involved, so human interest and story are absent. Perhaps the whole project looks too science-y for a culture that spins into post-truthiness, contains some serious anti-science and anti-technology strands, or just finds science stories too dry. Or maybe the American media outlets think Americans just aren’t that into space in particular in 2018.
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