Who are they kidding? China wouldn’t collaborate with us no matter what congress does. They have their own ambitions in space.
Any treaty with China would be a waste of perfectly good paper.
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Armstrong and Aldrin planted a U.S. flag on the moon with five other missions. It’s ours.
The “space law” reminds me of the map of the world the Pope drew up in the early 1500s.
The Pope awarded half of the world to Spain and the other half to Portugal.
They kept it for a while, until their armies and navies were brutally crushed in one war after another.
A Bagger 288 sized excavator on the Moon could be watched from Earth based, home telescopes.
Realistically, what could France bring to the table.
I suppose if we need to surrender to the aliens....
the fact of traveling to the moon itself is so great.
but it is not only China, Russia also rejected to join NASA and throwing in with China.
The moon is ours! We should’ve been more assertive in claiming it once we landed there in the 70s. I’m sure whoever goes there now will ignore any agreements and stakeout claims. It is a shame that the US is squander this opportunity.
Disappointed India didn’t join us. Maybe later. Germany and France are has beens. Russia and China are enemies so what did we expect?