Posted on 09/24/2020 3:18:39 PM PDT by LibWhacker
If it were Bush or Obama, their retort would be they already
have plans to have the space station replaced by 2050.
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Well, the Chinese will have no problem with installing “Rods from God”.
I believe that the US is, via private rockets, on track to go back to the moon by 2024, and stay.
It appears to me anyway that a moon base might be more difficult to setup but more cost efficient in the long run.
There are more effective ways to do science in LEO than maintaining a multi-billion dollar space station. The USA is most certainly not going to do that alone.
The Chinese are 20 years behind. They’re thinking LEO, we’re talking about the moon. Let them put up a station. There’s so much debris in LEO, they’re going to be dealing with the same issues as the ISS, and given their terrible debris track record with Long March, a Kessler event is becoming more likely.
Good thing we now have a Space Force!
China’s version would be “Kung Pow”.
There’s commercial plans for the ISS to get an attached ‘space hotel/research’ station that’ll be separated. I’m unsure if they can do it before the ISS goes away, but they are just now launching the docking platform on a Falcon 9.
I just hope we get the Lunar Gateway and to Mars by the mid 2030’s, think NASAs better for the moon, SpaceX for Mars.
Why shouldn’t the Chinese build a space station ..
After all they stole all technology from us and the Russkies
Theyre thinking LEO, were talking about the moon.
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China not only has lunar colonization plans, but was the first to explore the dark side of the moon with the Jade Rabbit lander
It’s not just the science, although that’s all we’re doing at present on ISS. LEO has strategic importance. The Chinese know that and we used to as well (star wars, etc.).
Oh we’ve got plenty of presence up there in black programs.
This is just the public consumption presence that nasa provides.
“China not only has lunar colonization plans, but was the first to explore the dark side of the moon with the Jade Rabbit lander”
There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it’s all dark.
Americans better WISE UP/
Key swamp demons were making fortunes when they allowed US companies in a number of industries including pharma, computer; and electrical as well metal fabrication components even bicycles relocate their factories in China . To the point where China was our sole supplier. The money the CCP has now comes from US .If we play our Chinese checkers right we can really turn things around for the better not only here but in China as well.
True but that doesnt seem to have been the plan. I suppose some might be used but likely only on deep military targets. They dont want widescale damage. The plan seems to have been to flood the world with backdoored electronics easily manipulated via 5G and gather what intel they could. Then in the near future take out the grid with space based energy weapons simulating an EMP. Then invade to gain more living room and access to farms. Enslave what males were available to production efforts. Gift the women to their disproportionately male population as they moved in.
More but thats the short version.
Nearly every paid off fedgov puppet after Reagan complicit.
Well that little USAF reconnaissance orbiter is pretty slick and it has a nice size payload pay and long (2-year) orbital endurance. If you supplement that with 1 or 2 smaller space stations that can go unmanned for periods, I would think that would be enough. The commercial space programs will fill in the larger scale stuff by separating the worlds multi-millionaire adventurists with some of their surplus cash.
Get SpaceX to help. They’ll build a new low-orbit space station and launch it within six months. Meanwhile, they’ll attach their rocket to the existing ISS and move it into an orbit around Mars, where it will be waiting for SpaceX crews in a few years. NASA can’t do anything by itself anymore. Let the private companies get it done.
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