The Trump administration had set a moon landing goal of 2024 citing, in part, competition with China.
"The Chinese government is the only second nation to successfully land on Mars," he said at the time."We're suddenly realizing that we don't own all of this. And it [China] is a very aggressive competitor."well underway. Like the ISS, China's Tiangong space station is set to enable China to carry out unique science experiments in space.
"Within the last 10 years, they have gotten exceptionally successful," he said."But China is very secretive, and they are non-transparent."of Chinese rocket parts is an example of this."When they put up their first component of their space station, they didn't reserve fuel to have a controlled re-entry on the [rocket's] huge first stage, and it's coming down uncontrolled," he said.
"And they will not share with anybody the trajectory. Not only did they do that for the first station a year or so ago, but the second component they just put up just recently, they did the same thing again." Nelson also said China has been unwilling to share its scientific discoveries with the world in the same way NASA has. He said that when NASA returned samples from the moon, they were made available to the international community. When China returned samples, they were not.
"The short answer is, the whole idea of working in space is to work together to help each other out," Nelson said."And hopefully China will get to that point, but thus far they haven't."
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