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Once again I am begging china to use their moon rover to push over our flag, and challenge us to space battlebots.
None of the Chang'e landing sites are very close to old Apollo sites.
Also, the flags the Apollo missions planted were probably blown over by the ascent stages firing.
They've all been bleached completely white by solar wind at this point too
America has basically surrendered in terms of space exploration anyways, so fitting.
It's not about the flag, it's about sending a message
bringing a special small enclosure to the moon so you can put the american flags into it, fill it with air, and then burn the flags
It's just a white flag now, it's already surrendered
A surrender to entropy and organizational decay is incredibly poetic
DOD can whoopsie daisy and lose a couple billion dollars out their pocket and they just keep getting more without any consequences. Scientific missions have to halt everything because a screw costs $40 over budget. Whitey not even on the moon anymore.
The Pentagon had over 2 trillion dollars unaccounted for in the early 2000s but we can't have nationalized health care because it would be too expensive.
Boeing's whole space division is cooked if they have to admit they need a ride home on a Dragon or a Soyuz but it's not a Columbia situation where there's no real feasible solution.
next time we equip our astronauts with cyanide pills in case to resist brainwashing by the communist slavasino brains
They're gonna cover it like a hostage negotiation, but it'll just be footage of two astronauts checking out of a pretty nice rebranded Holiday Inn in St Petersburg.
pretty sure the astronauts will be fine, they aren't random working class people on a Boeing flight
Imagine it getting to the point where they have to ask Russia to send a Soyuz up there,
or China to send a Shenzhou*. I have a feeling they'd rather de-orbit the ISS with two corpses on board.*Wolf Amendment
NASA was funded as a way to launder the reputation of rocket propulsion research, which has some other purposes than space travel
NASA started sucking with the Nixon era post-Apollo budget cuts
What probably makes things worse is I can't imagine NASA gets to build much institutional knowledge, between sections of it getting privatized and the robotics division is probably just a resume builder for people who want to make apps where you feed in a picture of your dog and the app tells you what kind of carpet it is.
NASA sucks without being able to "hire" engineers from a certain central European country who were working for a particular type of right wing government and their rocket program during the 1940s.
Things are realy different when you can't just jump start your technological race against your biggest enemy by just "referencing" from others lol.
Meanwhile the F35 boondogle continues and China is dabbing on us with Mission after Mission.
And the unsurprising thing is, I've NEVER seen a report by my local MSM about Chinese space missions.
Perfidious orientals illegally invade far side of moon with unreviewed lander technology, refuse to then donate to honest Americans the moon rocks stolen from the surface
NASA literally couldn't touch the moon rocks China brought back even if China gave us some, because of the 2011 Wolf Amendment signed into law by Obama.
The Wolf Amendment is a law passed by the United States Congress in 2011, named after then–United States Representative Frank Wolf, that prohibits the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from using government funds to engage in direct, bilateral cooperation with the Chinese government and China-affiliated organizations from its activities without explicit authorization from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Congress.
when I'm in a shooting myself in the foot out of racist spite competition and my opponent is the US Congress: :x
No no, they actually made a request for a unilateral trade.
You give me your space rocks
you get nothing in return
I expect the usual suspects will point to this as an example of why everything should be privatized.
"NASA IS A COMMUNIST ORGANIZATION" scream government officials in 2025
I've definitely heard at least one lib earnestly call NASA socialism along with the other usual suspects of roads and the US military
I actually had a dream last night about the ISS being de-orbited.
The only thing we're doing in space right now that China isn't is flooding low orbit with disposable satellites that provide overpriced internetwhoops nvm. Soon they'll be the only permanent human presence in space, and soon after that they'll be putting a nuclear fusion-powered Mars mission together while we're redirecting all of NASA's budget to a failing hypersonic missile development program.I can't say I understand their move here either. Outside of all the fuckiness of the satellite cloud model, it also just doesn't work? It can't really scale up beyond a certain point, and it's also just future space junk. Why they wouldn't simply provide actual infrastructure is beyond me.
China's next step in space isn't a Mars mission but a permanent moon base. Scouting locations for it is one of the purposes of the the Chang'e missions.
got those astronauts down yet?