From Cold War triumphalism to wanting to secure the future of humanity, people have given many reasons for wanting to go into space. Christopher Harding is joined by an historian, a science fiction writer, a scientist and a visionary to unpick some of those reasons, and ask what they tell us about technology, society and utopia.With Dr Ghina M. Halabi, Timothy Peacock, Una McCormack and Avi Loeb.Producer: Luke MulhallYou can hear more from Timothy Peacock, who teaches at the University of Glagow, in an episode of the Arts & Ideas podcast called New Thinking: From life on Mars to space junk
Una McCormack has contributed to Free Thinking episodes discussing Time, Star Trek, Quatermass, Dystopian Thinking, Asimov.
Avi Loeb has written Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth
Dr Ghina M. Halabi spent 13 years working on astrophysics research before becoming a consultant

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