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US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program (interestingengineering.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The amount of money spent on Apollo was insane. A reduced budget should have been sufficient. It's just been weighted down by shit cost-plus contracts and the abomination that is SLS.

The fear of China here is that they are basically single handedly their closest competitor. They're the only other nation thats managed a Mars Rover landing, building space station, and have their own plans for Moon and Mars with taikonauts( astronaut equivalent) on the ground in the future.