Nach den jüngsten Tests scheint China die Vereinigten Staaten wahrscheinlich zurück zum Mond zu schlagen
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/after-recent-tests-china-appears-likely-to-beat-the-united-states-back-to-the-moon/
Nach den jüngsten Tests scheint China die Vereinigten Staaten wahrscheinlich zurück zum Mond zu schlagen
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/after-recent-tests-china-appears-likely-to-beat-the-united-states-back-to-the-moon/
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Not at all unexpected considering that China is most likely funding and supporting its space program as opposed to the gutting of NASA that the current government is doing.
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It is hard to tell how this will end up, China does not publish a timeline and the US is constantly delayed.
US has an advantage in the Launch vehicles and Orion had two test flights.
Starship is Starship, Blue moon pathfinder was delayed to early 2026 and Orion has various problems.
At least when China lands on the moon it will hopefully spur the US to support NASA and student visas for STEM fields and stop the attack on public funding and maybe we can win the race to mars. Nothing is as important as science funding and the amount we learn from it pays dividends for generations.
The issue is that Starship HLS is nowhere near ready to get people to the moon.
While USA has been going to Mars, China has been doing the same on the Moon.
They are well prepared to do it.
I’m really not a fan of the USA, but the Moon has already been won while China barely had electricity.
It would be nice if we saw more cooperation!
Reaching an early space stage would progress much faster if it wasn’t treated like a competition of „X beats Y in space“
Started watching For All Mankind recently, interesting how the current situation feels like the initial „Race for the Base“ stage, especially with the interest around Shackleton Crater.
Regardless, unless a US lander exits the CGI mockup phase and the launch system gets developed then the first manned revisit will be Chinese. No way around it at this point.
I just hope that when the USA/West gets back to the moon they are there to stay. We’ve proved we can get there, we did over 50 years ago, dammit. Now I hope we prove we’re in it for the long haul.
Lol, been there done that and way before China. Good job doing something we did over half a century ago…
The US needs to keep its eyes on Mars. The Moon has already been conquered, Mars needs to be the next goal. If China wants to live in the past, let them. Mars is our goal.
We only had a 60-year lead. Talk about dropping the ball.
With Trump in charge, I expect China will beating us at everything except looking like a country of greedy, racist, fools.
Winning the race to second place is just not something that the guy who won first place fifty years ago worries about too much. Like, so what? You caught up to 1969-level technology? Our investments should be focused on more important things than re-winning last century’s chest-thumping opportunity.