Today, our new frontiers lie in space, which humanity must eventually colonize for minerals, energy and new homelands. As Carl Sagan observed, “All civilizations become either space-faring, or extinct.”
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival. — Neil deGrasse Tyson The commercialization of space began in 1965 with the deployment of the first private communications satellite IntelSat1, only 4 years after US FCC Commissioner Craven saw “no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States.”
