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A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like
our Earth.
-Christopher Wren
Space exploration has seen astronomical growth in the past five centuries. It
seems not long ago that we sent the first men to the moon in 1969, and now here
we are not even four centuries later in a time where the ability to send people to
space is outdated. We have robotic machines exploring foreign worlds and moons,
space telescopes that are able to capture pictures of galaxies almost fourteen billion
light years away, and giant orbital space stations that can support human life for
months at a time. We have accomplished far more than was ever thought possible
back in the 60s during the space race, and yet there is still so much to discover and
so many questions left unanswered. The most popular of these questions has to be
Are we alone in the universe? The debate over the potential of alien life has
managed to divide scientists and professionals. It has made its way into mainstream
culture and is the inspiration behind countless books, movies, and shows. However,