recently US President Donald Trump announced that the United States would
return to the moon in 2024 and this time to stay they also promised to put the
first woman on the moon in the same year the truth is has been more than 50 years
since the first man walked on the moon and they haven't returned since then at
that time it was common to say that a new stage of humanity has opened and
since then there has been no turning back
however we were wrong and that's because the space race at that time was really
only a race to put the first man on the moon it is true that great scientific
advances developed throughout the different missions conducted by the US
and the Soviet Union but after the Apollo 17 mission the United States
never returned to the moon and no other nation has attempted or even dared to go
and on the contrary the day we have technology millions of times more
powerful than back then and the smartphone you carry around every day in
your pocket is more powerful than the computers they had when they put the
first man on the moon today the space surrounding earth is
overpopulated with satellites compared to the 60s partly due to the increasing
demands of networks such as GPS internet and many others more than 100 nations
have satellites in space but only 12 nations have developed the technology to
propel their own rockets and space missions among them are the USA France
the United Kingdom Japan China India Ukraine Israel Iran and North Korea the
largest international effort was the International Space Station the most
expensive nation in history this project has cost more than a hundred billion US
dollars and was primarily built by two countries Russia and the US with the
exponential growth of China in India the next two world superpowers Russia has
been left behind in the new space race now China could become another key
player in space something that the United States is not looking forward to
today we will see how a new space race is emerging between the US China India
and the European Union so what are their goals on this race and will it be a
continuous race unlike the previous one without further introduction let's begin
in April 20 18 the chinese free station Hangang one plummeted into the Earth's
atmosphere disintegrating entirely just after China I lost control of it after
being in orbit for about eight years this Chinese space station was a
prototype station which initially hosted unmanned missions then up to three
manned missions the station was originally meant to last
only two years but it went up to four years in use China was the third nation
that put astronauts on its own into space its technological development has
been accelerating since then including a goal of developing a permanent Chinese
space station by 2020 all this in view of the fact that China was and still is
banned from participating in the joint work of the International Space Station
which includes most European countries the European special agency Brazil Japan
Canada Russia and the US the International Space Station is a true
feat of engineering and science has about one kilometer of habitable volume
which may sound small but compared to the difficulty of bringing it into orbit
represents a milestone of Engineering the station's cost were astronomical to
have it built at a height of between 350 to 400 kilometers in it hundreds of
experiments have been conducted on the absence of gravity in plants insects
animals and human beings the space station has always been inhabited by at
least one person at all times so far more than 206 people from 16 different
countries have been present it is constantly in the process of expansion
and ordered to complete its design it is expected that by 2024 it will no longer
be induce from then on who will not be a permanent space station supplying this
space station is very expensive for many years the US had been supplying the
station and launching crew onto it but the large costs has caused the
government to stop the program and from then on us has been depending on Russia
to send its astronauts space X was the first private company to supply the
international space station and they expect to be the first private entity to
send astronauts on to the station but in order to achieve this numerous tests and
regulations made by NASA were Cerie the united states has gradually
been neglecting its leadership and space exploration to the point where private
sized companies had to intervene so that the united states would once again send
humans into space all thanks to the efforts of the space ex CEO Elon Musk
China has realized this and in view of the u.s. veto of China's participation
in the space program it has decided to take matters into its own hands the next
two years China will make great progress in their two most prominent civil
programs in space lunar exploration and the construction of a new Space Station
in 2013 China sent a vehicle to the surface of the Moon first landing on the
surface since Russia and the United States suspended such efforts in the
late 1970s towards the end of that year China managed to put a robot on the
other side of the moon a region never explored from its surface and becoming
the first country in history to do so that landing motivated China in its next
attempt planning to collect rocks on the moon surface and bringing them back to
earth by 2020 China's eventual goal is to be able to
effectively put a man on the moon and although that could happen within 10 to
15 years it is still likely to happen and its technology is already in
development due to the fact that no technology from NASA can be shared with
China due to the u.s. veto China must develop all this technology entirely on
their own but this was not always the case in fact in the past China and the
u.s. cooperated in sending satellites into space and even sending us
satellites on Chinese Rockets but everything stopped in 1999 when DC
accused Beijing of stealing technology and from that moment on all space
cooperation was suspended the suspension of any space cooperation between NASA
and the China Space Agency has bothered Beijing and for good reason
beating for example claims the tense relations between the US and Russia has
not prevented the space agencies of those two countries from working
together and this is true as the u.s. depends on Russia on sending American
astronauts into space this practically confirms that the u.s. is blocking China
in order to prevent China's ascension as a space power beating claims that the
u.s. enjoys the idea of being in a scientific and technological Cold War
and that denying technological cooperation is absurd China has even
stated that if the u.s. does not want to cooperate there are other nations that
will a large part of Europe for example is
willing to collaborate Chinese and European scientific satellites launched
their first set in 2003 and as of today they are working together on a study on
the effects of solar wind the astronauts of the European Space Agency recently
trained Chinese astronauts in survival skills one of the goals of the Communist
Party is increased China's national pride and his achievements in space Xi
Jinping had announced two years ago that every
April 24th would be held as China's National Day of space the anniversary of
China's first satellite launched in 1970 China is still very far from reaching
the u.s. at a technological level in space essentially this is due to the
difference in budget NASA spends just about 0.5% of the federal budget but
this equates 19 billion u.s. dollars the largest budget allocated to space
related projects in the world after the u.s. is arrival on the moon in 1969 the
United States drastically decreased the intensity of its space program as you
can see in this graph the peak of spending and space related projects was
in 1969 and the u.s. gradually decreased its importance over the years while the
Soviets maintained the same intensity until the breakup of the Soviet Union as
of 2003 we can see an orange how China is entering the race into being one of
space explorations leaders even if dominating the u.s. in this field is
still a distant goal China is aware of the progress that India has been making
India plans its first landing on the moon with a rover by july 2019 if
successful it will be the 4th nation the successfully land on the moon just after
the United States Russia and China two years ago in fact China broke a world
record by launching a hundred and four satellites from a single rocket the feat
added tension in Asia's space race just a few weeks after China revealed a list
of eight names for its spacecraft to go to Mars to be launched between 2020 and
2021 in March of 2019 a render Modi Prime Minister of India appeared on
television to convey the message the initiate national pride an Indian
missile had been launched 300 kilometers from the ground to destroy a satellite
making india one of the few countries in the world that have developed
anti-satellite weapons a new way to counteract spy satellites from other
nations China had already done this in 2007
and it caused international rejection since the destruction of a satellite due
to China produce debris from the explosion that fell into low Earth orbit
putting other satellites of other countries at risk and for those who have
seen the movie gravity this scene is similar to what is happening to
satellites in space Western powers have long been hesitant about China's space
program much of the technology developed can and will be used by the Chinese
military and CERN about the transfer of technology the US and its most loyal
allies have avoided any cooperation proposals it is not a surprise now and
strumpf created the space defense program that the previous year trump
signed an executive order ordering NASA to send men back on the moon but any
attempt to just raise the pride of Americans by going back to get lunar
soil will disappear again is there's no real motivation or interest in order to
make this project gain interest is to make it more profitable and that is why
American companies are beginning to fill the void that the American government
could not complete although it is limited to only the US for example only
US citizens can work on the projects or aerospace companies as a measure of
national security at the moment the race to get to Mars is still pending it is
not known who will arrive first either NASA or SpaceX or together the most
certain thing at this point in time is that it will be the United States but
this may not always be the case for now the vast majority of the world's private
space programs whether military or commercial or American but the model is
currently spreading even China has been seeing a rise of private rocket
companies and this will undoubtedly escalate the new space race the race to
Mars will include both private organizations and entire nation this
will be truly interesting to watch and it will make a better test of the
interaction between private companies and the States different from the
original space race for what do you think of the current situation you think
that the u.s. is right to deny China technological cooperation do you think
that China can eventually surpass the u.s. in the long term and don't forget
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