Here comes the next round of the space race, with China?
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If any of you haven’t noticed, I don’t think we have to worry about Russia causing problems in space, nor do we have to be concerned with Europe. However, be forewarned, within 10 years China will be giving us fits.
This article does a good job of covering their current activities and the fact they are building a rocket that will blast a bigger hole in the sky then our Saturn 5. I’m sure anything they do will be nationalistic and with the intention of controlling something. This is very similar to their plan of building islands off their coast to extend their boundaries and control the shipping in the area.
This is a precursor to my story Virus where China was the first to put a Helium-3 mining facility on the moon and the rest of the world catches up only after a disaster almost wipes out the colony. My book is fiction but China going to moon is anything but altruistic. Remember the old adage ‘possession is 9/10 of the law’.
We aren’t spending pocket change on space and Europe won’t take on any major programs until they figure out their budget mess. Russia is pretty much out of the picture and they are in a decline, so all that is left is China. If we don’t wake up and start investing in space, we’ll be sitting in the same position we were with Sputnik. We won’t have to worry about a dog in space it will be a dragon.
Ray Jay Perreault
