Not surprising. The U.S. won’t ever catch up to China at the rate it’s going.
ITividar on
>In this decade they have conducted two lunar sample returns with rovers, including one to the lunar far side. The U.S. has never done a robotic lunar sample return.
Because we sent multiple *manned* trips there already and brought back so much that losing a quantity of moon rock didn’t make much of a difference.
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GrendelShepherd on
Let’s get another hard core space race going agin! Better than whatever we seem to racing to over the past 30 years.
Dildomuflin on
If there is any country that visits the heliosphere and Oort Cloud next and potentially proxima centauri, it’s China.
Only SpaceX comes close to competing with China at this point
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ale_93113 on
This sub should be renamed to USspace or WesternSpace, since any positive mention of china makes people here recoil in anger and frustration
in theory this place should not prefer any country over another in space exploration, since this is not a political sub, but in reality…
mtechgroup on
And nuclear power. See the recent news about their salt reactor successes.
Cheap-Bell-4389 on
The advantage I see that China has isn’t technological. The west is risk averse, maybe too risk averse these days.
That doesn’t necessarily mean they’re ahead of us.
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|[L2](/r/Space/comments/1k2bbh9/stub/mnt1bps “Last usage”)|[Lagrange Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point) 2 ([Sixty Symbols](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxpVbU5FH0s) video explanation)|
| |Paywalled section of the NasaSpaceFlight forum|
|[LEM](/r/Space/comments/1k2bbh9/stub/mnuua9g “Last usage”)|(Apollo) [Lunar Excursion Module](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module) (also Lunar Module)|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1k2bbh9/stub/mnt64l7 “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1k2bbh9/stub/mnt4sje “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
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Manned Mars is a lot bit further down the line I’d say, even for a technological powerhouse like China. Moon and Mars are not really in the same ballpark.
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It really doesent matter if China lands on the Moon first. The lander they’re developing is basically a J class LEM with a bit more space and a longer stay time. And it will crash its decent stage into the Moon at high speeds for every launch which is not at all conductive for multiple landings at the same site. Artemis will practically land an entire lunar base per mission launched and wont leave any debris on the surface from the Lander which makes base building far easier.
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Not surprising. The U.S. won’t ever catch up to China at the rate it’s going.
>In this decade they have conducted two lunar sample returns with rovers, including one to the lunar far side. The U.S. has never done a robotic lunar sample return.
Because we sent multiple *manned* trips there already and brought back so much that losing a quantity of moon rock didn’t make much of a difference.
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Let’s get another hard core space race going agin! Better than whatever we seem to racing to over the past 30 years.
If there is any country that visits the heliosphere and Oort Cloud next and potentially proxima centauri, it’s China.
Only SpaceX comes close to competing with China at this point
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This sub should be renamed to USspace or WesternSpace, since any positive mention of china makes people here recoil in anger and frustration
in theory this place should not prefer any country over another in space exploration, since this is not a political sub, but in reality…
And nuclear power. See the recent news about their salt reactor successes.
The advantage I see that China has isn’t technological. The west is risk averse, maybe too risk averse these days.
That doesn’t necessarily mean they’re ahead of us.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|[L2](/r/Space/comments/1k2bbh9/stub/mnt1bps “Last usage”)|[Lagrange Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point) 2 ([Sixty Symbols](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxpVbU5FH0s) video explanation)|
| |Paywalled section of the NasaSpaceFlight forum|
|[LEM](/r/Space/comments/1k2bbh9/stub/mnuua9g “Last usage”)|(Apollo) [Lunar Excursion Module](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module) (also Lunar Module)|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1k2bbh9/stub/mnt64l7 “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1k2bbh9/stub/mnt4sje “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
Decronym is now also available on Lemmy! Requests for support and new installations should be directed to the Contact address below.
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Manned Mars is a lot bit further down the line I’d say, even for a technological powerhouse like China. Moon and Mars are not really in the same ballpark.
It really doesent matter if China lands on the Moon first. The lander they’re developing is basically a J class LEM with a bit more space and a longer stay time. And it will crash its decent stage into the Moon at high speeds for every launch which is not at all conductive for multiple landings at the same site. Artemis will practically land an entire lunar base per mission launched and wont leave any debris on the surface from the Lander which makes base building far easier.