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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
5 days ago

NASA's Moon Mission Is a Mess, and It May Cost Us the New Space Race

The first Trump administration unveiled its Artemis lunar landing program in 2017, aiming for astronaut boots on the moon in 2024 and an eventual Artemis Base Camp a decade later. These would not be Apollo-style flags-and-footprints sorties but rather longer-duration missions meant to support the construction of an eventual Artemis Base Camp lunar outpost; as such, they require bigger rockets and spacecraftand more complex hardware for surface operations.
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fromAxios
3 weeks ago

Bill Nye leads charge to save NASA science from deep Trump cuts

U.S. funding cuts and potential mass firings jeopardize NASA missions and jobs while China accelerates major planetary programs, prompting advocacy to defend U.S. space science.
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fromFuturism
1 month ago

New Report Finds That China's Space Program Is Rapidly Outstripping NASA

China's government-backed surge in commercial space investment and lunar exploration is eroding U.S. dominance and reshaping global space markets, partnerships, and governance.
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fromArs Technica
1 month ago

A new report finds China's space program will soon equal that of the US

China's commercial and civil space programs are rapidly advancing and may surpass the United States within five to ten years without sustained American action.
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