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China is a thousands year old civilization. The US has no right to consider itself a competitor much less a threat to China.
US must beat China back to the moon, Congress tells NASA
'It's no secret that China has a goal to surpass the United States by 2045 as global leaders in space. We can't allow this to happen.'www.space.com
US must beat China back to the moon, Congress tells NASA
'It's no secret that PRC has a goal to surpass the United States by 2045 as global leaders in space. We can't allow this to happen.'
The delays in NASA's Artemis moon program are making some members of Congress nervous.
Last week, NASA announced that it's now targeting September 2025 for its Artemis 2 mission, which will send four astronauts around the moon, and September 2026 for Artemis 3, which will put boots on Earth's nearest neighbor for the first time in more than half a century.
These new Artemis launch dates represent delays of about a year for each flight. The rightward push was spurred by the need to conduct more studies of key Artemis hardware, such as the heat shield of NASA's Orion crew capsule, which didn't perform quite as expected during the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission in late 2022.
The U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Science, Space and Technology held a hearing about the new Artemis plan today (Jan. 17), and multiple members voiced concern about the slippage.
"I remind my colleagues that we are not the only country interested in sending humans to the moon," Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK) said in his opening remarks.
"The CCP is actively soliciting international partners for a lunar mission — a lunar research station — and has stated its ambition to have human astronauts on the surface by 2030," he added. "The country that lands first will have the ability to set a precedent for whether future lunar activities are conducted with openness and transparency, or in a more restricted manner."
The committee's ranking member, California Democrat Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), voiced similar sentiments.
"Let me be clear: I support Artemis," she said in her opening remarks. "But I want it to be successful, especially with China at our heels. And we want to be helpful here in the committee in ensuring that Artemis is strong and staying on track as we look to lead the world, hand-in-hand with our partners, in the human exploration of the moon and beyond."
Several other committee members stressed that the new moon race is part of a broader competition with China, and that coming in second could imperil U.S. national security.
"It's no secret that China has a goal to surpass the United States by 2045 as global leaders in space. We can't allow this to happen," Rich McCormick (R-GA) said during the hearing. "I think the leading edge that we have in space technology will protect the United States — not just the economy, but technologies that can benefit humankind."
And Bill Posey (R-FL) referred to space as the "ultimate military high ground," saying that whoever leads in the final frontier "will control the destiny of this Earth."
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US must beat China back to the moon, Congress tells NASA
'It's no secret that China has a goal to surpass the United States by 2045 as global leaders in space. We can't allow this to happen.'www.space.com
I don't think PRC has any interest in playing the role of the Soviets. However, occupying the Moon is indeed one of CCP's short term ambition.They want to go to the moon again but their smartphones are occupied with Chinese apps and their stores are occupied with Chinese goods.
And they go with a stick against those who can reduce their China dependence
Atleast the Americans showed the will to fight the Soviets lol, they also built up alliances and the industries of their vassals.I don't think PRC has any interest in playing the role of the Soviets. However, occupying the Moon is indeed one of CCP's short term ambition.
Biden could not even ban Tiktok. Western deep state made China powerful, now the same communist China will kill Western hegemony.So Trump has proposed 60 % tarrif on chinkies. This will pressurise Biden to be tough on China.
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What he means is China should explain to US why so many Chinese military sats are under the cover of civilian usesCome on. US was the first to start the space war and they created the US Space Force. They can't be crying about spilt milk when they were the ones to spill milk in the first place!
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