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"Next Year's News This Week" Profile on: Stoke Space By Evan Anderson __________ Why Read: The field of space technology is entering a new era, with more and more entrants offering a variety of services previously unimaginable in efficiency, scale, and design. This week, we cover one of the most promising companies in space tech, and the rocket it is about to launch. Read on for a description of the state of the industry and why Stoke Space might just be the next big thing. - era __________ We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. - President John F. Kennedy, Rice University address (9/12/62) I'm hopeful that commercial space exploration will take off. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that's only going to happen in the commercial sector - if there are large profits to be made. - Alan Stern, Chief Scientist, Moon Express
Since the beginning of the space race in the mid-1950s, human eyes have turned skyward with a different gaze. The first launches, Sputnik, and, finally, the Moon landing proved out the case that humans really could move, survive, and operate in our final frontier. A new era was heralded; humanity would be a spacefaring species at last. But then life got in the way. Promises of Moon bases first dreamed of in the science fiction of the 1920s seemed to fade as budgets were cut. NASA, at its peak, was responsible for over 4% of federal spending. While the organization survived massive attempted cuts in 2025, that number now stands at closer to 0.5%.
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