In the 1960s the US was rich and had huge manufacturing capacity and skills, like China has today. The US of today is not the US of the 1960s. Much like Britai

In the 1960s the US was rich and had huge manufacturing capacity and skills, like China has today. The US of today is not the US of the 1960s. Much like Britain imagined it could compete in the space race of the 1960s, the US is imagining that it is capable enough and rich enough to reach the Moon again. Just as Germany passed the baton of its space technology of the 30s and 40s to the US and Soviets of the 50s and 60s, it's time that the Russians and Americans of the 2020s passed the baton on to the Chinese. Humanity moves ever forward, individual nations can rest satisfied with their own contributions to the whole.