China's burgeoning space program plans to place astronauts on the moon before 2030 and expand the country's orbiting space station, officials said Monday.
China will beat the USA back to the moon, but 2030 is a little ambitious.
It also wouldn't be the first time NASA has had to delay and then scuttle another moon mission between bduget cuts and the reality of American private provisioning. Constellation was supposed to return to the Moon by 2020.
I dunno if the US has the same juice it did as a state to organize another crewed moon mission like they did in the 60s and 70s. Maybe with the pressure of the PRC doing it they will, but it's just not the same cold war and not the same rate of profit they had.
It's insane the national unity and concentration of common effort the US had to put a man on the moon in 1969. Kennedy's speech was in 1961. No freaking way the corrupt US empire could pull something like that again. The MIC had not expended to its current state, back then it looked like a tick before feeding. The gov't can allocate all the money it wants, it will simply be inhaled by the tick which will bloat to dozens of times its size to consume all available resources.
It also wouldn't be the first time NASA has had to delay and then scuttle another moon mission between bduget cuts and the reality of American private provisioning. Constellation was supposed to return to the Moon by 2020.
I dunno if the US has the same juice it did as a state to organize another crewed moon mission like they did in the 60s and 70s. Maybe with the pressure of the PRC doing it they will, but it's just not the same cold war and not the same rate of profit they had.
This is it right here. The US just doesn't have the ability to organize the insane resources needed for a lunar mission, let alone Mars, anymore.
It's insane the national unity and concentration of common effort the US had to put a man on the moon in 1969. Kennedy's speech was in 1961. No freaking way the corrupt US empire could pull something like that again. The MIC had not expended to its current state, back then it looked like a tick before feeding. The gov't can allocate all the money it wants, it will simply be inhaled by the tick which will bloat to dozens of times its size to consume all available resources.