There's a new space race will the billionaires win?

"If there is one thing we can rely on in this world, it is human hubris, and space and astronomy are no exception. The ancients believed that everything revolved around Earth. In the 16th century, Copernicus and his peers overturned that view with the heliocentric model. Since then, telescopes and spacecraft have revealed just how insignificant we are. There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, each star a sun"

"In 1995, the Hubble space telescope captured its first deep-field image: this showed us that there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in our known universe, huge wheeling collections of stars dispersed through space. Let's take the International Astronomical Union's definition of space as everything in the universe apart from our planet and atmosphere. Asking the question who owns space? seems laughable. Hubris at a"

Human hubris has repeatedly shaped cosmological views, from geocentric beliefs to heliocentric understanding. Telescopes and spacecraft reveal the vastness and human insignificance in a universe of hundreds of billions of stars and galaxies. The Hubble deep-field image of 1995 exposed billions of galaxies across the known universe. The International Astronomical Union defines space as everything beyond Earth and its atmosphere. Claims of ownership over space are unreasonable and conceited. Space exploration history includes a confrontation era driven by wartime military competition, a collaboration era exemplified by the European Space Agency and US-Soviet docking, and a current commercialization era dominated by private actors. Space should be treated as a shared domain like the high seas or Antarctica.

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