Administrator Bill Nelson says Beijing could seek ‘own’ resource-rich areas and next two years could be key to US-China contest
Students listen to an introduction to the Chang'e 5 moon sample-return spacecraft, at the InnoTech Expo in Hong Kong, China, last month.Nasa, meanwhile, recently completed the 26-day Artemis I mission to take pictures of the lunar surface. Future missions are designed toward establishing more activity on the moon. However, the US is also focused on Mars.
US military brass have also sounded alarm over Chinese militarization of space and attendant security concerns.on a visit to Australia. “The progress they’ve made has been stunning – stunningly fast.” But Beijing has rejected some US interpretations of the motives behind China’s space push. “Outer space is not a wrestling ground,” Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington, told Politico.
The spokesman said that some US officials had “spoken irresponsibly to misrepresent the normal and legitimate space endeavors of China”. “China always advocates the peaceful use of outer space, opposes the weaponization of and arms race in outer space, and works actively toward building a community with a shared future for mankind in the space domain,” the statement added.
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