Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration

In the 1960s and '70s, America spent $20 billion dollars (around $150 billion in today's dollars) to land humans on the moon, and "win" the Cold War. And while man took his first steps on an extraterrestrial landscape, protests at Cape Canaveral asked: Why waste money on space when there are so many issues here on Earth? Fifty-one years later, an oligopoly of commercial space companies— SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic— has begun sending civilians into space. These civilians are the...