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2543.\\ The Next Man on the Moon Will Be Chinese

I don't like profligate spending. I'm against all sorts of government expenditure. I would like to see the space industry dominated by American private enterprise.

However, in eviscerating NASA and providing little to no incentive for the market to fill the void, Mr. Obama has permanently relegated America to second or even third-tier status as a space power. We will have no advanced launch capability. No refueling capability. No mechanism for protecting our dwindling space assets. Our national security absolutely relies on America dominating the near Earth orbital zone. Instead we will now be forced to rely on China, India and Russia for access to space.

Forget about the moon or Mars. Those are now the property of China Inc.

Reported by Christo the Elder on February 2, 2010 @ 09:13

 TAGGED AS: China, NASA, Space

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