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Chinese space official seems unimpressed with NASA's lunar gateway
This week, the European and Chinese space agencies held a workshop in Amsterdam to discuss cooperation between Europe and China on lunar science missions. The meeting comes as Europe seems increasingly content to work with China on spaceflight programs.
Although the meeting is not being streamed online, space systems designer and lunar exploration enthusiast Angeliki Kapoglou has been providing some coverage of the meeting via Twitter. Among the most interesting things she has shared are slides from a presentation by Pei Zhaoyu, who is deputy director of the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
[...] Overall, Pei does not appear to be a fan of NASA's plan to build a deep space gateway, formally known as the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, at a near-rectilinear halo orbit. Whereas NASA will focus its activities on this gateway away from the Moon, Pei said China will focus on a "lunar scientific research station."
[...] So far, NASA has yet to finalize commitments with Europe, Russia, or other International Space Station partners on contributions to the gateway. While European officials are interested, it seems like they may also be willing to go along with China if that country has a more direct plan to land humans on the Moon.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @08:19AM (1 child)
I look forward to the Chinese exploring the moon's surface.... especially if they have no state religion involved and they are free to reveal what they find.
I have an ulterior motive - as I believe we are far older than we have record of, and I also believe its very likely we were seeded here by a far more highly technically advanced race than what we are now, but if so, the evidence of this will be on the moon. If America was to go there, I would be quite concerned that the findings would be "classified" so as to avoid upsetting the quite profitable apple carts of our local religions.
Nor do I think America has the drive to do anything like this anymore - doing stuff like this is so '60's for us. Its far more profitable for us to have someone else do it, and we give them permission to do it. For a fee, of course. Payable in the currency we print.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Freeman on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:11PM
You watched the new Babylon series too, huh?
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"