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Knowing this, one organisation within the United Nations is quietly and resolutely expanding the frontiers to space exploration by making education, teaching, and research a key part of its focus. In the process, it has bridged the perceptual and infrastructural barriers around reaching out to space and highlighted the benefits of networking and sharing knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the rest of this article, complete with additional feature content, on the Research Features website <a href=\"https:\/\/researchfeatures.com\/unbssi-planting-seeds-space-exploration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. (Opens in a new tab)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two indisputable yet oft-forgotten facts about space exploration: space belongs to no one, and you don\u2019t need to enter space to study its immense wondrousness. 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