This is the first in a series of Nikkei Asia articles on the players, possibilities and problems of the new era in space.
"The universe is an awfully big place," author Kurt Vonnegut wrote. "There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree." © Illustration by Hiroko Aida
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