On Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 11:01:29 PM UTC-7, 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..

So where do you get the money for colonizing the Moon, Mars?
Also, has to be technological break through's, which is never linear with the amount of money spend.