[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

What really sucks is that China's space capabilities are accelerating while ours continues to crumble. They not anywhere near America's capabilities, but they're learning fast. Our government is crippled by corruption at every turn.

We put people on the moon 30+ years ago. Now we can't even send a decent probe to Mars because we're spending the money on welfare and free pills for old people. Great trade-off.

[theFIRMbss]

>China's space capabilities are accelerating while ours continues to crumble

Your assumption is
our space capabilities
are all at NASA...

Do you really think
military and black ops
only have NASA?!

[Porterville]

"What really sucks is that China's space capabilities "

We are preping re entry military space vehicles and all types of military applications on sea, land and air... I doubt, with a larger military budget than all the world combined, we are falling behind a bunch of slave labor in China.

[Bonaparte]

"China's space capabilities are accelerating..."

Thanks to Bill Clinton, who for 8 years did everything he could to pass our critical technology to the Chicoms -- while they infused huge amounts into his campaign coffers. Under any democrat, the Chinese will control our national elections and have unfettered access to our national security secrets.

[NonZeroSum]

What really sucks is that China's space capabilities are accelerating while ours continues to crumble. They not anywhere near America's capabilities, but they're learning fast.

They're accelerating in a useless direction, and learning the wrong things. American entrepreneurs will lead the way into space, not government programs that spend millions to put up little capsules on expendable rockets.

When they start to learn from the newly emerging private space industry, rather than the old failed Soviet or NASA model, then we should worry.