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Unlikely. It's not going to be that much of qualitative difference, some 50+ years after Apollo, so the question would be "who's Moon base is more impressive".
by avmich 6y ago
Unlikely. It's not going to be that much of qualitative difference, some 50+ years after Apollo, so the question would be "who's Moon base is more impressive". Just some new boots on the Moon wouldn't be enough.
Of course if China will manage to put a kind of a permanent base on the Moon, even some years after USA, that will be quite noteworthy.
- JKCalhoun 6y agoI don't know. If China one-ups the U.S. in space, pride might come into play.
- simonh 6y agoI agree, right now the US has been talking about going back to the moon for years and put out a whole series of timelines that have slipped by. If the Chinese made concrete progress towards doing it, I think that would really focus minds in the US. The Boomer generation beat the Soviets, can the current generation beat the Chinese?
- iso1210 6y agoBoomer generation started in 1946, they didn't leave college until 1968. It was the previous generation that built NASA and landed on the moon. Boomers were the ones who stopped the space program and turned it into a jobs program. Gen X graduated at the end of the 80s and brought new energy into the 90s to build the first dot com and the internet economy, and people like Musk and Beck are the ones shaking up the space industry. Boomers were involved in Viking and Voyager, but their main contribution to space was the Shuttle and the ISS.