From Yuri Gagarin to our spatial “expansion” starting from the Moon: a brief history of the space economy

A period of herohood began for him, first for the Soviet Union and then for all of humanity, with incredible celebrations and crowds in every part of the world where he was taken on a real propaganda tour in favor of the Soviet Union and his ideology, the only one that guaranteed the necessary driving force for human progress.

In truth, the situation at the time was one of absolute dominance towards the USA, which was having tremendous difficulty in regaining lost ground, also due to its President Eisenhower, who did not believe too much in space as a new frontier. Legends abound about Gagarin’s successes and his end at just 34 years old, in 1968. The man who, with his spacecraft, Vostok 1, 4.5 meters and 5 tons, had beaten Icarus, died on a banal educational trip of a Mig-15 jet Soviet supremacy lasted a long time, until the Apollo missions at the end of the decade, which reversed the direction of progress, making the United States take the lead in a big way.

Today, after having filled the low orbit around the Earth, between 200 and 1000 kilometers above the ground, with 5 thousand satellites, which follow us in our daily activities and almost look after us, showing us the way to get to an appointment at a restaurant, we they let us know when our plane will arrive and what time and where it is, they also monitor agriculture and track ships and infinite other applications that improve our lives and that of the Planet at every moment of the day.

A constant and almost uncontainable progress, but limited to the vicinity of the Earth: in short, until a few years ago we experienced space as a simple, and close, extension of the earth’s soil. Even for astronauts who have never gone beyond the magnificent International Space Station, which however is only 400 kilometers above us. Around the corner in simple terms.

The Earth and the satellites

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With the Space economy, the desire to return to the Moon has also started again, to go there, visit it, live there, build homes, laboratories, mines from which to extract precious minerals for us. We also want a Lunar economy.