The Administration’s budget today contains some interesting things when it comes to NASA. It has correctly committed the state space agency in helping commercial rockets reach low Earth orbit. In doing so, it is ensuring American predominance in many of the space industries of the future. But it is also cutting back on the big projects that inspire nations, capitavate the imaginations of its children who will be its future scientists and engineers. America, it seems, is pulling back from its plan to put another man on the moon by 2020. In doing so, it is ceding the moon to China, which has the burning ambition and excitement to get there come what may. This is not about vanity (for either nation). Its about scientific progress and the high ground in future technologies. America’s retreat is a matter of great concern
US retreats from the moon as China forges ahead
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