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Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Sommariva Andrea

A Synergy of Public and Private in Space Exploration

The first phase in the history of human exploration of space, in the 1950s and ’60s, saw a pre-eminent role of government: public investment in the military field and the missions to the moon set off processes of technological innovation with very positive spinoffs for the economies as a whole, as in the case of the development of satellite technologies,#Since the 1970s, more and more private corporations ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Perretti Fabrizio

The Meeting/Clash Between Material and Imaginary

Our readers may wonder why, on our 50th anniversary, our magazine has decided to dedicate so much attention to the year 1969. The answer, as we will attempt to illustrate in this dossier, is because some of the events from that year were very important for the issues we still deal with today; more so than the events of 1968, another symbolic year whose importance and legacy have recently been the ...