European Space Policy Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:58:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png European Space Policy Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 What people don’t get about space  https://spacenews.com/what-people-dont-get-about-space/ https://spacenews.com/what-people-dont-get-about-space/#respond Mon, 10 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=441376 A composite image of Europe viewed from space. Credit: NASA/GSFC
A composite image of Europe viewed from space. Credit: NASA/GSFC

The general population imagines space as something far off and unreachable, when it is omnipresent in their daily lives. This lack of awareness is dangerous for the space sector, particularly public space agencies, that increasingly need to justify their existence and funding in an era of commercial space ventures and climate change restrictions. 

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