Going to the moon is a symbol. It’s symbolic to China being better if China gets there first. It is the only reason why we want to go. There is no one else who

Going to the moon is a symbol. It’s symbolic to China being better if China gets there first. It is the only reason why we want to go. There is no one else who can do it except for spacex, it’s likely he’s just applying pressure onto spacex. Is it a valid reason? Depends on how prideful you are. Are you proud to be an American and are you proud to be the greatest economic super power on the planet? For me it’s not valid. I don’t hold any pride about any country even though I’m American. Pride is a form of emotional bias. If China becomes better, which is a highly likely possibility. The symbol of this being better is irrelevant. In fact arguably China is already better than us in many ways.