Anti-Trump sentiment could limit US investment in space, Apollo 15 astronaut says

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'Anti-President Trump' sentiment in the U.S. could become a barrier to American investment in space exploration, according to astronaut Al Worden.

for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 12th congressional district in 1982, predicted that as governments become increasingly ambitious, space exploration will have to become an international project.

"It's my belief that as we go further into space it's going to get more and more expensive, and no one country is going to want to do it on their own," he said. "I think space is going to force cooperation between countries, and I think that's a good thing." Worden added that the International Space Station was an example of a "very, very nice cooperative effort," and noted that the U.S. had, in the past, been "very cooperative with the Russians for a long time" when it came to exploring outer space.

"I think as we go further — we're going to go back to the moon, we're going to go to Mars, but then we're going to go beyond that — it's going to require lots and lots of countries to get it done," he told CNBC. Corporations are also turning their attention to space exploration, with a view to commercializing space travel in the coming decades. The space economy, already estimated to be worth around

 

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