Ahead of This Week's Starship Launch, FUTURE of SPACE Co-Founder Daniel Fox Makes the Case for Why We Go to Space

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In his new essay, Space Story 2.0, Fox argues space has never had a technology problem, only a story problem, as FUTURE of SPACE brings its VECTOR series to Los Angeles November…

In his new essay, Space Story 2.0, Fox argues space has never had a technology problem, only a story problem, as FUTURE of SPACE brings its VECTOR series to Los Angeles November 13 to 14.

PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As SpaceX prepares this week's historic Starship flight, targeted for Friday, November 13, Daniel Fox, Co-Founder of FUTURE of SPACE, has published "Space Story 2.0," an essay arguing the big question of why we go to space matters more now than ever.

"Space has never had a technology problem. It has a story problem," said Fox. "We kept the rockets and lost the story. And when things get hard, the story is what people lean on."

The essay begins at Rice Stadium in 1962, where President Kennedy gave a crowd a reason to go to the Moon before anyone knew how to get there. Fox traces how the reason was lost, through Carl Sagan's Contact, Alain de Botton's Atheism 2.0 and an Overview Effect offering "an address" rather than "a direction." Looking at Artemis II and the debate over NASA's spending to return to the Moon, he finds every answer on offer is a means, and "none of them is a reason."

His answer requires neither a god nor pretending humans are perfect. The scale of the universe, he writes, is not proof of our smallness but the odds it took for life to happen even once. "We are the first species about to take life beyond the planet where it began. Not as conquerors and not as a cancer, but as life's way of continuing its own story," Fox writes. "Nature gave us the foundation, and we give it direction."

With Tristan Tanovan-Fox, Fox co-founded FUTURE of SPACE, where astronauts, scientists, artists, musicians, technologists and curious minds meet to experience exploration and innovation firsthand, not from a screen. Its Space2Sea voyages sailed to Antarctica in 2024 with featured guests including William Shatner, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Charlie Duke, Ann Curry, Scott Kelly, José Hernández, Céline Cousteau and Keyon Harrold, and to the Galápagos…

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