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China Is Winning The Space Race -- John Hickman. Foreign Policy
Don't laugh. In less than a decade, Beijing will likely be the world's most important player in outer space.
On June 11, in the flat and featureless Gobi Desert, China took a giant leap for mankind -- or at least a symbolic step toward space dominance -- when it sent three astronauts into space for 15 days. With the past as a guide, both that launch and the 2010 launch of the Chang'e 2 unmanned lunar orbiter are technologically unimpressive. Shift the focus to the present and they are merely unsettling. But look to the future, and they are unmistakable warning signs that China may surpass the United States and Russia to become the world's preeminent spacefaring power.
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My Comment: China has the resources, expertise, money, and most important of them all .... the will power and determination to become the world's most important player in outer space. My prediction .... in 20 years they will have accomplished this objective (if not sooner).
Update: Houston, We Have a Problem: China's notoriously lagging space program may finally be catching up to America's. -- Foreign Policy
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Personally don't see it as a problem. At least the chinese are interested in developing their space program, unlike, ehem, certain other countries..
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