Two Views On a China-US Space Race

An anonmous submitter writes "While there has been recent discussion about China and India engaging in a space race, most people are still focused on a potential race between China and the US in near future. The Space Review recently published a pair of essays on this topic: the first argues that China-US space race is both unlikely and undesirable, given the aftermath of the US-USSR space race thirty years ago. A followup article suggests that a China-US space race is vital, so long as it takes a more commercial, long-term approach than the US-USSR one. Food for thought..."

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[nnnneedles]

Going to space is severely overrated.

Just because space is so exiting in sci-fi doesn't mean it's actually that interesting in real life.

There are just rocks and gases out there, nothing to see or do really. move on to other things, and stop romanticising the big void.