Doing some quick research, the Apollo program cost 64 billion (US) in today's dollars. The ENTIRE spending of the Chinese government is 133 billion. In terms of space technology, the Chinese are roughly where we were in the mid to late 50s. They can luanch unmanned orbiters, and have balistic missles... though they are not capable of reaching beyond California... But there is just no way they can afford to modernize as quickly as we did. The Soviets spent huge sums, and continued their effort for years beyond the US, despite having a space tech lead at the start
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Doing some quick research, the Apollo program cost 64 billion (US) in today's dollars. The ENTIRE spending of the Chinese government is 133 billion. In terms of space technology, the Chinese are roughly where we were in the mid to late 50s. They can luanch unmanned orbiters, and have balistic missles... though they are not capable of reaching beyond California... But there is just no way they can afford to modernize as quickly as we did. The Soviets spent huge sums, and continued their effort for years beyond the US, despite having a space tech lead at the start