As the United States positions our country as the "biggest and only" competitor, they have begun to pursue and intercept us in various fields, and even want to take action on the moon to hinder our country's scientific research and exploration of the moon.

As the United States positions our country as the "biggest and only" competitor, they have begun to pursue and intercept us in various fields, and even want to take action on the moon to hinder our country's scientific research and exploration of the moon.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson

According to Global Network January 2, 2023, Bill Nelson, Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), said that China and the United States are in a "space race."

Nielsen's remarks reflect the consistent style of the US government, which is to elevate all China-related topics to a political level. In his view, the United States must be careful enough not to allow China to reach somewhere on the moon "under the guise of scientific research."

Nielsen also emphasized to the outside world that "there is not much time left for the United States." In his opinion, once China takes the lead in completing its inspection of the moon and implements its moon landing plan , will "occupy the moon" and shut out the United States.

Schematic diagram of Chang'e-5 collecting lunar soil

Nelson's move is obviously throwing dirty water on my country's aerospace industry and distorting the purpose of my country's lunar exploration. At this point, the Russian Satellite News Agency has a more straightforward report.

Russian media reported that Nielsen believes that if Chinese astronauts complete the plan to land on the moon, China "may declare territorial rights to the moon" and refuse American astronauts to land on the moon, claiming to them to "stay away, the moon is China's territory."

In fact, our country has repeatedly expressed its intention to the international community to peacefully use and develop the moon, and has never had a plan to "monopolize the moon." The reason why NASA Administrator Nielsen made such ridiculous remarks may have other intentions.

NASA logo

On the one hand, Nielsen is probably trying to ask the U.S. Congress for more scientific research funding by emphasizing the "terribility" of China. You must know that as targeting China has become almost the only consensus between the two parties in the United States, the U.S. government has regarded curbing China's development as the most urgent matter.

Against this background, in order to pursue their political intentions, many U.S. officials often exaggerate the so-called "China threat" and use the excuse of suppressing China to lobby members of Congress to approve various bills they propose.

On the other hand, Nielsen is likely trying to shift the attention of the American public to China to cover up a series of failures by NASA in recent times.

NASA rocket launch site

A few days ago, NASA made a high-profile announcement that they would test-fire the latest model of the moon landing rocket, which was named " Space Launch System " (SLS).

At the same time, NASA has also restarted the "Artemis" moon landing program that has been delayed for many years. The purpose is to prove that the United States still occupies the high ground of the global aerospace industry and lunar exploration industry.

In the first step of the "Artemis" moon landing plan, NASA envisioned using the SLS rocket to send the "Orion" spacecraft into the Earth-moon orbit, allowing the "Orion" spacecraft to fly around the moon for 42 days before returning to Earth and crashing into the Pacific Ocean near , California.

Schematic diagram of the "Orion" spacecraft

However, the restart of the "Artemis" moon landing program was not so smooth sailing. In recent times, in the aerospace industry, the United States has fully exposed its side of being strong on the outside but hard on the inside. This is obvious to all.

Aerospace experts at home and abroad in the United States pointed out unceremoniously that from the current point of view, there has been a gap in American aerospace talents. This has had a huge impact on the United States' aerospace industry. The United States can hardly reproduce the feats of the "Apollo Project" and cannot land astronauts on the moon again.

What’s even more serious is that, troubled by technical and other problems, the test launch mission of the United States’ new-generation lunar landing rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), has been repeatedly postponed, which has cast a shadow over the United States’ Artemis moon landing plan.

Saturn 5

You must know that in addition to saving more fuel and money, the performance of the SLS rocket in all aspects is not even comparable to the Saturn 5 SA-506 launch vehicle that implemented the "Apollo Project".

The Saturn 5 was a technology developed by the United States more than 50 years ago. At that time, the United States gathered nationwide efforts to develop the launch vehicle with an astonishing capacity, and with the help of this rocket, it became the first country in the world to achieve manned spaceflight.

This feat of the United States has won it a great international reputation and also inspired the entire Western world. However, because it spent a huge amount of money on the moon landing program without achieving equivalent results, the U.S. government gradually stopped the moon landing project.

The U.S. Congress

needs to point out that the U.S. moon landing plan is also full of political implications. In the context of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States sought to surpass the Soviet Union in manned aviation in order to prove to the world that it was more qualified to dominate the world. This was the direct reason why they launched the moon landing plan.

Now the United States is playing political manipulation in the aerospace industry again, but they have changed their competitor from the former Soviet Union to China. In this regard, we should not be disturbed by and continue to develop according to our own route.

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian once pointed out that NASA has made false claims to "spit" China on many occasions, and China firmly opposes such irresponsible remarks.

If the United States continues to oppose Huawei and ignore its own development laws, then sooner or later they will fall from the altar.