China launch will prep for Moon landing

On Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 5:37:14 AM UTC-7, Mike Collins wrote:

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.


Without Nixon sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks to win an election the war
would have ended years earlier. Plenty of money to continue Apollo level
spending.

We still don't know how to shield against radiation of the astronauts in space for long time travel?