On April 17, 2024, the Primakov Centre hosted held a debate of the Unitis Club on the topic “Space privatization: should private companies play a key role in space exploration, or should it remain under the control of states?” as part of the “V Week of Russian Diplomacy”. Alexander Fedoseev, a representative of JSC SRC Progress, noted that cosmonautics is one of the main industries without which it is impossible to imagine the development of mankind. Ksenia Pisanenko, a lawyer for the private space company SR Space, mentioned in her opening speech that space is a sphere that is difficult …