Only the Swiss
The US and Russia may be working on Mars missions, but the galactic ambitions of the Swiss are far more modest: they want to tidy up the Earth’s atmosphere.
I can see the scene. A couple of Swiss scientists, laying on the hide of a hill on a warm summer’s evening, looking up at the stars, contemplating the beauty and entropy of it all.
“It’s very messy up there.”
“Yes.”
“We should clean it up.”
“Good idea.”