The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China's space program

The Western space community has split opinions on China's Moon ambitions, Ars Technica reports. Some dismiss it: after all, the United States reached the Moon nearly six decades ago with Apollo 11. Others strongly disagree. If China lands humans on the Moon before the US returns, they argue, it would represent a major geopolitical victory and a symbolic statement about which nation leads the world in the twenty-first century.

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