How serious is China’s challenge to America’s technology lead? Chinese to land on the moon, Americans on an asteroid
Jan 6th, 2012 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
How serious is China's challenge to America's technology lead? Over the New Year's weekend, a pair of NASA spacecraft arrived back in the US from the first mission devoted to studying lunar gravity. America had established its dominance in the space race in July 1969 when the first humans landed on the lunar surface from Apollo 11 and days before last week's return of the NASA vehicles, China announced an ambitious five-year plan for space exploration that would move China closer to becoming a major rival at a time when the American program is in retreat.