Final frontier: The race to control space
This Is Why
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
It’s been 25 years since a crew of astronauts first stepped foot on the International Space Station – and it’s been occupied ever since.
The station itself will be “de-orbited” in 2030, but naturally humankind’s ambition to explore the universe remains as limitless as ever.
What will the new space race between the US and China look like? Or could the ambitions of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos take us into another dimension?
Niall is joined by Sky’s science correspondent Thomas Moore.
Producer: Tom Gillespie
Editor: Mike Bovill
Transcript
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| 0:08.6 | Coming up, it's been 25 years since astronauts first arrived in the International Space Station, |
| 0:15.3 | proof that humanity can cooperate, at least when the gravity is switched off. |
| 0:19.7 | So what has it achieved and who owns space now? |
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| 1:22.6 | availability. T's and Cs apply. There is this kind of new element of a space race. |
| 1:30.3 | I think we can also do it in a spirit of cooperation and collaboration. |
| 1:35.3 | That's the whole spirit of exploration is, you know, yes, okay, we might be coming from different positions, |
| 1:40.3 | but we're also, you know, one species, and we're also there to cooperate and collaborate. |
| 1:45.9 | If anyone knows a thing or two about space, it's Major Tim Peake, the first British astronaut |
| 1:50.9 | at the European Space Agency and the sixth person born in the UK to reach the giddy heights |
| 1:56.5 | of the International Space Station. 25 years since the first astronauts moved in, |
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