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Fifty years ago, the young generations rebelled and demonstrated for freedom and equal opportunities for all peoples in the world, regardless of the latitude where they were born or whatever social class that they belonged to. Our heroes were the poets and musicians of the beat generation, of whom Bob Dylan is perhaps the most unanimously recognized representative. A couple of months ago Elon Musk launched his car on a Falcon Heavy into space. This gesture was highly symbolic, as Musk is saying that we shall continue our civilian activities — particularly industrial development — in outer space. We must not expect the messengers of the Renaissance to always present themselves in the same form…

In the space between low orbit and geostationary orbit travel an estimated number of 700,000 objects larger than 1 cm and 170 million objects of dimensions greater than 1 mm. The near Earth space region becomes more and more dangerous. But here we want to discuss the convenience — today, and not in a distant future — of investing in orbital industrial activities conducted by human technicians, with respect to fully robotic operations. …

Renaissance years are never easy, as history teaches us, and this historical phase is manifesting more and more hectic and contradictory, if not chaotic, events. Political turmoil and movements came about centuries ago, and are doing so again, dividing countries, and offering simplistic answers to complex problems, pushing for change. In fact, today our world looks like a bubbling cauldron, where the global communication network allows the diffusion in real time of information on everything that happens.
Space Renaissance is both a goal and an astronautical humanist association: our mission is to accelerate the kickoff of the expansion of civilization into space. Sadly, history tells us that undesirable violence and injustice seem to inevitably accompany all advances the renaissance might bring to humanity, but that does not mean we must stand quietly by when this happens. We do not agree with the violence and so promote peaceful, collaborative civilian space development as an alternative to military interests.