US, China Lunar Return Plans
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•The US is now at risk of losing to China in the race to send people back to the Moon’s surface
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US and China are preparing to send humans back to the Moon this decade .
But the US lunar program is delayed, in part because the spacesuits and lunar-landing vehicle are not ready.
Meanwhile, China has pledged to put astronauts on the Moon by 2030 .
There now appears to be a realistic possibility that China could beat the US .
Former Nasa administrator Michael Griffin has advocated a simpler strategy, broadly along the lines of how China expects to accomplish its lunar landing.
His vision sees Nasa relying on traditional commercial partners such as Boeing , rather than relative newbies’ such as SpaceX.
The Apollo program was simpler, but at almost three times the cost of Artemis .
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