Enough foolishness. What do* we, as the Original Man & Woman, need to do to get in & succeed* in the Space Race?

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No divisiveness, slick talkin' or backbitin'. What do we as a global race needs to do? Seriously.
The elephant in the room is the lack of capital. Pretty much every nation with a space presence has a trillion dollar economy. Not a single black nation has even a half a trillion economy. So i dont think anything is doable on a national scale.



However, it is possible on an individual basis. For example, Elon musk ironically came from a black nation, and has managed to graft himself into the space ambitions of the US trillion dollar economy. He is already shuttling astronauts out to the international space station. So perhaps the best way for black people to be a fixture in space is to do the same thing. Imagine being an industrial contractor for the Japanese Space agency, or EU space agency, or indian space agency, or nasa.


Furthermore, @TheKongoEmpire i think we have more than enough black stem people. There are loads of black computer scientists, black engineers, black pilots, and black space biologists. The issue is that they don't have enough capital. All the brains in the world are useless if you can't afford hydrogen rocket fuel, let alone a space propulsion system.


Conversely, the few Black people with the finances to fund those intellectuals (Aiko Dangote, Robert Smith, David Steward, etc) are not themselves interested in space in the same way Richard branson, Musk , or Bezos are. Even among billionaires space is a niche interest. Black people dont have enough billionaires for this interest to arise naturally amongst them
 
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