Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28279817-20180326115240/@comment-1073312-20180710134321

We have space technologies, but I don't think that makes us in the space stage in terms of Spore.

IIRC the first space mission in Spore deals with piloting a ship to a different planet in another orbit, before another mission to setup a colony. Since we've yet to send people to orbit Venus or land on Mars, or put a colony on the Moon, we're not in the space stage.