The ISS is scheduled to deorbit in the early 2030s. US officials are concerned over a potential gap in the country's orbital presence.

US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China’s space program::undefined

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So they had no issue relying on Russia to service the ISS ever since they shutdown the space shuttle, but now they’re afraid of China… doing space science faster?

Ignoring the fact that this is not even a real concern, maybe don’t spend morbillions on free munitions for Israel or Lockheed’s next stupid idea.

They defunded NASA so hard that they started hallucinating about going back to the moon with 15% of the Apollo budget.

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The amount of money spent on Apollo was insane. A reduced budget should have been sufficient. It’s just been weighted down by shit cost-plus contracts and the abomination that is SLS.

The fear of China here is that they are basically single handedly their closest competitor. They’re the only other nation thats managed a Mars Rover landing, building space station, and have their own plans for Moon and Mars with taikonauts( astronaut equivalent) on the ground in the future.

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