Click above to listen to part 3 of Space: Why Go There?, featuring Danielle Wood, assistant professor at MIT Media Lab and Director of the Space Enabled Research Group, listing dozens of countries across Asia, Africa, and South America who are launching space programs, and how their access to space is a social justice issue.

Space: Why Go There?:
Part 1: Sarah Cruddas / Spacebound
Part 2: Jamese Sims / GOES-West
Part 3: Danielle Wood / Space Access
Part 4: Jim Green / Exploring Planets

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