Wannabe Space Pilgrims Test What Makes A Celestial Nation

When Igor Ashurbeyli walked onstage to be inaugurated Asgardia’s head of state, it was a few small steps for the Russian scientist and businessman, and one dubious leap for the world’s first “space nation.”The national anthem that preceded him fills the mind with scenes of an epic, pioneering future, and that’s just what Ashurbeyli envisions. Our descendants take up residence in “space arks” with artificial gravity, a fleet of ships defends earthlings fr