Maybe my '
mind' is too simplistic and/or
naive, but I can't help thinking that all we need is better communication between Countries, and
work more together towards common
goals/needs in space now. I would 'like' to think that GONE are the Cold-War days of secretive developments
and deployments, and to a certain degree it is happening now between certain Countries & Companies!
I remember reading a book by the very knowledgeable & talented
Carl Sagan, (who has sadly passed), who wrote a book called '
Contact'.
It was a work of
fiction, but I'm sure it was his dream about how he would love something like this to really come to fruition!! For the un-
initiated, it is about some remote Alien lifeforms finally actually making contact with us... Containing complex instructions about how to 1st
interpret their information/data, and then instructions about how to 'build' a massively complex machine, to travel back to them!!!
The
upshot of it all, was that it was so huge, complex & expensive technological project, that literally the whole World had to get together
to fabricate all the components, and to actually build it!! I'm sure he desired 'us' all working together some day!!