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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..."
I think it would be important for china to establish a space colony. After all, they have what, 1.2 billion people? Send some of those people to a new colony.
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Squirrel
Contrary to popular beliefs, the space race was about developing the technology of ICBM's. The astronaut on the moon saluting the flag was just the dance in the inzone after we race was over.
The recently released Kennedy tapes prove this incontrivertably.
So with that said, there can be no race with the U.S. That race is over.
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Not to be trollish but... at the moment it is pretty much china who are trying to do anything itneresting.
Besides all the infomation gathering probes which make beareded scientists very happy the only major space aim that NASA has is a vague ambition to maybe, possibly, put a man on mars within a couple of decades.
China are actually aiming to create not just a permanent presence in space or even a space industry but more a soceitry in space.
yeah but I bet ze germans stole the ideas from the US in the first place.