Space Research

Space Science is the study and exploration of anything and everything to do with whatever is out there beyond Earth’s immediate influence. Here I am ignoring the fact that Earth’s gravitational influence stretches a long long way beyond our atmosphere.

Space Science includes disciplines of astronomy (studying things in space by remote observation and data) and aerospace engineering (reaching out into space for exploiting its resources, using its location advantages, and gathering data on celestial objects).

Earth is so small that whatever science has achieved until now is a tiny (tending to zero) part of the possibilities of science. The rest is out there, in space, to observe, understand, discover, and invent for. In the timeline of science we haven’t even taken the first full step since humans starting walking on Earth.

We still have to understand most of:

·         How the universe was formed and how it works

·         What’s on the other planets, stars, galaxies, star systems, and everything between them

·         How and why the objects in the universe were formed and how they interact

·         Life beyond Earth

·         The possibilities of traveling in space and our limits for it

·         How objects in space affect us in the short and long term

·         …

(Ref: Prashant Dobriyal)