Various missions, including within NASA’s Artemis program, aim to return humans to the lunar surface by the end of the decade and establish a long-term presence in the 2030s.
Some experts say these ambitions are rooted in financial gain and extraction — mirroring what drove colonizers to plunder the Americas and beyond. This raises urgent questions about what some scholars and critics describe as the “colonization” of space.
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