Infographic: The Conquest of Space — A Retrospective

We are in a new era of space conquest. The technology and ambition is accelerating at a pace we haven’t seen since the sixties. I created this infographic to provide some context on how we got here.

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Sources:
• Aerospace security — most of the charts were reproduced from here;
• Union of Concerned Scientists — a comprehensive database of orbiting satellites;
• World Space Flights — lists all past and current astronauts.