Space is still the final frontier. But the ways we explore it in the 21st century will be far removed from those of the late 1960s when the phrase was popularised in the opening monologue of Star Trek.
Today’s astronauts and space researchers might share some of the same goals as the Starship Enterprise crew in wanting to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and boldly go where no one has gone before. But the philosophy behind space mission design has changed since that time.
