China Launches Rocket to the Moon, Its Second Ever

Good for them.

FIRST POST!!!

"Welcome! to the Federation Starship SS Buttcrack!!!"

China: Not just satisfied with scaring Republicans about world domination; now shooting for lunar domination.

It looks like they want to turn the Bay of Rainbows into the Bay of Yellow...

wouldn't be the bay of red, seeing as how they're commies n' all?

Dear China.

THERE'S NOTHING THERE...IT'S JUST MOON DUST. Please point your rocket to Mars. Thanks.

moon has Helium 3 fusion energy

I have a thought. If China, Russia, India, Japan, and others all live, manufacture, fight, and work in space while America is stuck on Earth, then national security will be greatly compromised. If we need to be at the forefront of space exploration to ensure the safety of me and mine, then I support space exploration a thousand per cent. We just need to find the right way to do it.

The Right Way:

1] American Heavy Lift Systems.
I know this is not the best way, but we will not figure out a better way if we outsource our complete national spacecraft development to the Russians. We need to learn from the space shuttle program and move on.

2] Privatization of Space.
If outer space was handed over to the desiring population, then progress would move at least a little bit faster. This is because of competition, which has shown to accelerate technological growth in the past. My examples are both of the world wars.

3] A Clear and Definate Mission.
NASA has been floating around in limbo for an unacceptable ammount of time. If the national space program is only a duck in the water, then the best American example is pethetic. NASA should be at the fore, supported by an army of private cooporations.

Space is just waiting to be explored, there's so much out there. It matters not how difficult it is to harness, only what we are willing to give up to assume our rightful place in the stars.

@No More Heros "It matters not how difficult it is to harness, only what we are willing to give up to assume our rightful place in the stars."

While I agree we should have a better space program along the same lines you have stated, the above statement sounds a little too much like manifest destiny. Who says we have a place among the stars? We aren't bound for the stars by some right, we just really wanna go there. Still, you brought up some good points.