Exoplanets

Asteroids

Illustration for Vandana Singh's story "Shikasta," showing an orbiter circling a planet, mostly in shadow, with its sun in the background.

Exoplanets

Section IV: Exoplanets Suddenly Nadia felt a breeze swirl through her nervous system, running up her spine and out into her skin; her cheeks tingled, and she could feel her

Illustration for Ramez Naam's story "The Use of Things," showing an astronaut grappling on the surface of an asteroid, along with several small mining robots.

Asteroids

Section III: Asteroids Back in the socket, on the other side of the cable, upbound elevator cars were being loaded with refined metals, platinum, gold, uranium, and silver. Then the

Cover for Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A collection of space Futures. Edited by Ed Finn and Joey Eschrich. Photo of the inside of a futuristic space station. A ship and planet can be seen outside the window.

Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures

Why should we go to space? Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities takes on the challenge of imagining new stories at the intersection of public and private—narratives that use the economic and social history of exploration, as well as current technical and scientific research, to inform scenarios for the future of the “new space” era.

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