China in Space: Threat or Menace?

[james_davis_nicoll]

The answer is "which can we use to scare the USG into funding more space stuff?"

As touted here: Leonard David's "Is China's Space Program Shaping a Celestial Empire?"

Comments

Re: as to NuSpace

[gohover.livejournal.com]

Just to clarify: I think NASA's problems have nothing to do with Obama or his predecessors, other than perhaps their understandable lack of focus on NASA. I'm only saying "ignore the racists" because there is no pro-Obama or anti-Obama argument which is even relevant.

Re: as to NuSpace

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I think that in this context, the one criticism I'd make specifically of Obama is that he particularly doesn't care that much about the uncrewed planetary program; the White House budgets usually slash it brutally and then Congress maybe puts some of that back in.

Of course this is all a small part of the ritualized drama that is the budget process. And it's not as if any administration in recent history has made robotic planetary exploration a major priority; they'd usually like to propose some grandiose crewed space exploration project, whether or not it can actually be funded.