US scientists find ‘critical gaps’ in Nasa plan to beat China on the moon
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3323460/us-scientists-find-critical-gaps-holding-back-nasa-moon-plan-china-races-ahead
US scientists find ‘critical gaps’ in Nasa plan to beat China on the moon
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3323460/us-scientists-find-critical-gaps-holding-back-nasa-moon-plan-china-races-ahead
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Are the gaps the government level execution of budget and talent?
To go back to the moon just to win a race against China? I can’t think of a worse reason-
I think it’s a lost cause. This is China’s world now, and we’re just living in it. I really, *really* don’t like the ccp but I’m starting to see no other option if I want to work in science than to learn mandarin and move there.
Dang we better pay attention to this if its from the always reputable South China Morning Post
So, NASA is an acronym and not a word.
That is not a legitimate news site.
As long as you say it enough you can totally get to the moon while slashing budgets.
MAGA has handed space exploration to China. Also education, economy, green energy…..
What you submitted was just a picture of a Trump hotel on the moon drawn in crayon on the back of a Shoney’s kids menu!
Hi, I’d just like to point out that we beat China to the Moon… fifty-six years ago.
Maybe if we fire more experts those gaps will go away…
Why is NASA still concerned with the moon?
Been there done that – 55 years ago.
Mars is where it’s at. Sadly NASA will still be screwing around on the moon in 2050, while SpaceX Is putting Mars Bases in place.
This is said with all due respect to NASA – numerous spectacular planetary and other missions. No other country is within light years of what they’ve accomplished. Kudos 👍.
But – the moon? C’mon guys.
Like a launch vehicle. Or landing vehicle. It’s a bit difficult without those things.
They should have fast tracked a 2 launch falcon heavy and started throwing autonomous landers up there already.
SLS will get 1 launch and that’s it for the MSFC. Alabama is done and cooked, they will not recover from Trump pushing out their most experienced, most competent staff. Most of whom were Alabamans. The next generation of rocketry is with SpaceX and BLO in California and Texas. As NASA is stepped back and dismantled for private companies and state universities, the barriers between traditional aerospace jobs and electronics and chemistry jobs will disappear. Moon Gas, Sponsored By Chevron! And, this will coincide with Boeing’s death from Trump’s trade war.
The only way of doing things was completely smashed by DOGE. It is not coming back. People got to understand that this is the great space reset, and China landing their men on the moon will be out Sputnik. Nothing less will convince Congress to put the pieces together.
I mean, just pull out your sixties blue prints. Bam! Moon.
[This appears to be the paper.](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-025-00518-4)
Maybe this will drive the “For All Mankind” future once china beats us to the moon?
What if they tried to beat china to affordable housing and education instead? Nah dats crazy
Hate to break it to you, but NASA isn’t beating anyone to anywhere under this adminitstration.
“Chinese journalists say China is better than US”. So reliable.
Well, there’s another tiny little gap. Congress and the executive branch have figured out how to save a bit on the SLS project.
[Just cut the second stage.](https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/congress-and-trump-may-compromise-on-the-sls-rocket-by-axing-its-costly-upper-stage/)
Sounds like a perfectly cromulent solution…
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|[GAO](/r/Space/comments/1nh28aw/stub/ne924rl “Last usage”)|(US) Government Accountability Office|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1nh28aw/stub/ne924rl “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
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|[MSFC](/r/Space/comments/1nh28aw/stub/ne8tpns “Last usage”)|Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama|
|[NRHO](/r/Space/comments/1nh28aw/stub/ne924rl “Last usage”)|Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1nh28aw/stub/ne90wno “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
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Could it be the fact that there were massive cuts to NASA?