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Will China Beat the United States Back to the Moon?
MarkWhittington writes "During an address on the space economy to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the space age, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin made the assertion that China would beat the United States back to the Moon. 'Americans will not like it, but they will just have to not like it. I think we will see, as we have seen with China's introductory manned space flights so far, we will see again that nations look up to other nations that appear to be at the top of the technical pyramid, and they want to do deals with those nations. It's one of the things that made us the world's greatest economic power. So I think we'll be reinstructed in that lesson in the coming years and I hope that Americans will take that instruction positively and react to it by investing in those things that are the leading edge of what's possible."'"
Billy-bob sold the Chinese plenty of our hard won missile technology. Now his life partner is taking millions in Chinese cash in her bid for POTUS. Maybe she will help leak Intel's secrets for her personal gain.
Democrat scum. Well, that is kind of redundant.
.. for China to go to the moon. There's no market for Chinese food or nail salons there!
---- "Excuse me. Where's the children's gun section?"
In order to go "back" to somewhere don't you have to have gone there at least once already?
Nobody but the USA has landed on the moon so far. The USA can go back.
Nobody else can go "back." Because they haven't already been there in first place. China can go for the FIRST time. Like USA did almost 4 decades ago.
China is simply telling the whole world, "Look, we're 40 years behind the USA!" Not very impressive IMHO.