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US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program (interestingengineering.com)

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US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program::undefined

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

So they had no issue relying on Russia to service the ISS ever since they shutdown the space shuttle, but now they're afraid of China... doing space science faster?

Ignoring the fact that this is not even a real concern, maybe don't spend morbillions on free munitions for Israel or Lockheed's next stupid idea.

They defunded NASA so hard that they started hallucinating about going back to the moon with 15% of the Apollo budget.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

At the time, Russia wasn’t as…..problematic. We had been working with Russia as an International Partner since the very early days of ISS and even during Shuttle/Mir.

Obviously they did become problematic, but we didn’t have other options until SpaceX. Now that’s….obviously got its own issues, but Russia is vastly different than China when it comes to space. Russia needs the money, China already has it.

[–] N00dle@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

The fact that NASA had to rely on Roscosmos in the first place is shameful. It highlights long standing issues facing the space program. I think some of these problems trace back to the cost of the ISS. It's been hard to convey the importance and investment into the future the station provides.

For China their station provides proof of concept that they can achieve similar results one day both to themselves and the world watching.

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