Star Wars? How space quietly powers daily life in Cyprus

Star Wars? How space quietly powers daily life in Cyprus

Until this week, if I heard the word “space”, I would probably have followed it up with something cliché like “the final frontier” or “beam me up, Scotty”. Like many people, my associations are more of distant galaxies, astronauts, science fiction. In short, like you, I think about the future and matters that are mostly outside of our world. Then I spent two days at EU Space Days 2026 in Nicosia and all those associations suddenly became a littl…