DG anthology: Space
A Tesla car belonging to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk leaves the Earth to enter orbit around the sun, 6th February 2018. Photo: SpaceX/UPI
Often shoved to the margins of mainstream media coverage, stories about space – the exploration of our immediate neighbourhood, the perspective it gives us on our own planet and the expanding horizons of our understanding of the universe – might turn out to be the most significant in human history. From comprehensive infographics detailing manned space travel to date to the ever-less-fantastical race to colonise Mars, here is how we’ve covered the heavens so far in Delayed Gratification…
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