Why China is focused on the Moon: The Belt and Road initiative has spread to outer space

The Spectator ^ | 06/03/2024 | David Whitehouse

[Mr. K]

I do hope this was meant as a joke. If so, it’s not clear

[sauropod]

bkmk

[PIF]

Artemis 3 will not happen until 2035 at the earliest. Maybe get there by 2050.

NASA is so slow, so cumbersome with bureaucracies, redundancies, political infighting, and reams of regulations, all of which are increased every year in size and number.

Only NASA would destroy the majority of Apollo images and tapes to make room for other data. One can only wonder what other hard-won and expensive-to-obtain data has been destroyed to “make room”.

[PIF]

So what...We gots BLACK CULTURE. we gots DIVERSITY. We gots LGBTQIAA++ sheeit. We gots uh, uh... to learn Mandarin.

[bert]

The belt and road initiative has failed. Loans are not being repaid. China banks holding the bags

[Jan_Sobieski]

Interesting that our technology and piloting skills were so much better in 1969. We were able to send a spacecraft past the height of the international space station by 472,000 miles there and back. If only NASA had not accidentally spoliated all of the spacecraft design and data, we would have colonies on the moon. Even our ability to navigate to the moon using only sextant and stars was so much better than navigational computers today! Now we can only go 350 miles 😔

[The Louiswu]

Politics aside, I say congratulations to the Chinese people who successfully put that probe on the moon. Getting to the moon and landing safely is a huge achievement and a great technical challenge. I pray that they went with good intentions and may their future peaceful endeavors meet with success as well

[telescope115]

I partially agree with you. ABSOLUTELY let the private companies take charge of it! NASA is so entrenched in DEI and WOKE this and that, that there is very little they do right anymore.

Case in point: STARLINER. It’s turning into a huge folly.

[telescope115]

The sunrise and sunset would happen when the spacecraft, in its orbit, would come around to bring the sun into view, or orbit until the sun disappears behind the Moon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya5tWW-3uw0

The same happens here with the Earth…

[moovova]

I, for one, look forward to enjoying some General Tso’s Chicken on the moon.

[moovova]

The Chinese do realize the Nazis beat them to it, right?