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Space Blocs: The future of international cooperation in space is splitting along lines of power on Earth

  • Written by Svetla Ben-Itzhak, Assistant Professor of Space and International Relations, Air University
imageIn the next decade, both a U.S.-led group and a collaboration between Russia and China aim to set up bases on the Moon.Theasis/iStock via Getty Images

Even during times of conflict on the ground, space has historically been an arena of collaboration among nations. But trends in the past decade suggest that the nature of cooperation in space is...

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