CHINA’s space agency has officially declared that the US is a competitor on the moon for the very first time.
The China National Space Administration’s shock decision comes after they fiercely stated they’d never compete with the US.
The CNSA said: “It is foreseeable that in the next 20 to 30 years, China’s International Lunar Research Station and the US Artemis programme will compete.”
Their new lunar plan read: “[We] will compete in terms of technology and operational efficiency on the same historical stage and at the same geographical location (the south pole of the moon).”
It continued: “In the historical context of that period, the race to demonstrate superior political strength made lunar exploration unsustainable,
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