A.C. Charania, Author at SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:46:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png A.C. Charania, Author at SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 The next space race will be won at night https://spacenews.com/the-next-space-race-will-be-won-at-night/ https://spacenews.com/the-next-space-race-will-be-won-at-night/#respond Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=557347 Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean extracts the fuel element of a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) from storage on the lunar module on the Moon. Credit: NASA

The first space race was about getting to the moon. Today’s race to the moon and Mars is about staying there.

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