RichA wrote:
On Monday, 21 May 2018 11:59:43 UTC-4, StarDust wrote:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44198673

China has launched a relay satellite to prepare for a lunar rover
mission planned for later in the year.

China is very ambitious?

The tragic thing is they are more less replicating things that were done
what, 55 YEARS ago? We should have colonized the Moon AND Mars y now,
visited all the other planets, and have a ship headed to a near star
system. But lack of interest by an increasingly science-illiterate public
and increasing weak-willed politicians means the space program is back at
square one, wondering slack-jawed if they can cobble together another
Saturn V for a return trip to the Moon and keeping that worthless
money-pit the ISS in orbit.


If the USA had a second Johnson term instead of Nixon the Vietnam war would
have ended years earlier and the USA would have been on Mars before the end
of the 20th century.