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Originally Posted by billethkid
A significant feat in and of itself. In addition to the soft landing it also deployed a land rover that will travel the moon for 3 months. Another significant feat all by itself.
The accomplishments further underline China's commitment to advancing technology.
As we can all REMEMBER there was very much technology transfered from the conquests in space to industry and we the people.
The rest of the world will have recieved China's message on capability in space.
This accomplishment should/could be looked at as another form of the Sputnik accomplishment of the past.
The USA could once again wind up or already is behind.
We the people need to encourage our representatives to have another JFK moment to lay out the future of our space program, for our future generations. The return on investment is substantial for private, corporate and essential for military capability.
Nothing political intended. The above is offered in the same spirit as discussing whether golf cart a bridge should be put over a highway.
Nothing more.
btk
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I agree----we are falling behind in technology and space because we refuse to fund our space program. Thousands of space engineers have been layed off and NASA is just a "shell" of itself.
The one really good program where there was leading edge technology----we don't properly fund. I'm not blaming anyone person or any one political party. Perhaps China's achievements will be a wake up call.