Here is a cool IO9 article concerning China's continuing plans and efforts to put a man on the Moon. The Chinese report really hasn't said anything new. Speculation has it that they are still looking at putting a man on the surface of the Moon by 2025. Even talks this vague has some people speculating about the future of American space efforts. I have to side with those concerns. The USA has abdicated it's place as a manned power in space. The corpse just doesn't know enough to lay down yet. Harsh yes, but no less true.
Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin continues to be actively vocal about NASA's lack of foresight and enthusiasm for a manned presence. Griffin has gone on record saying that China's space efforts would "leave the United States in its wake;"
Griffin said at NASA oversight committee meeting last September: (from the article)
- In my opinion, China understands what it takes to be a great power...They are a near-peer competitor of ours and I would worry very much about the future of this nation if we were not — and if we were not seen by all — to be a world leader.
read the IO9 article here
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