{"id":1539614,"date":"2022-07-05T11:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539614"},"modified":"2022-07-05T11:19:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:19:44","slug":"nasa-warns-china-trying-to-take-over-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasa-warns-china-trying-to-take-over-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Warns China Trying To Take Over Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnasa-warns-china-trying-to-take-over-moon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539614&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Who owns the Moon? Nobody. But China is making a play, at least according to the head of NASA.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s National Space Administration might be planning a \u201ctakeover\u201d of the Moon as part of its military space program, NASA\u2019s administrator Bill Nelson has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/politik\/inland\/politik-inland\/nasa-chef-schlaegt-alarm-chinesen-wollen-den-mond-besetzen-80490242.bild.html\">told<\/a> the newspaper Bild.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a new race to space \u2013 this time with China,\u201d Nelson reportedly told the German outlet. \u201cBut Beijing\u2019s plans go further: China is planning its own moon base \u2013 together with Russia!\u201d the mag wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must be very concerned that China is landing on the moon and saying: \u2018It\u2019s ours now and you stay out,&#8217;\u201d the U.S. space agency chief reportedly said. \u201cChina\u2019s space program is a military space program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In the interview, Nelson also charged that China was stealing technology from other countries and said Beijing is learning how to destroy or capture others\u2019 satellites.<\/p>\n<p>China was not happy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThis is not the first time for the chief of NASA to lie through his teeth and smear China,\u201d said Zhao Lijian, China\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-07-05\/china-slams-nasa-administrator-bill-nelson-as-race-to-the-moon-gets-heated\">according<\/a> to Bloomberg News. \u201cIn recent years the US openly defined space as a war-fighting domain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. side has constantly constructed a smear campaign against China\u2019s normal and reasonable outer space endeavours, and China firmly opposes such irresponsible remarks,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/science\/china-rejects-nasa-accusation-it-will-take-over-moon-2022-07-04\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>China is stepping up its space program and focusing on exploration of the Moon. The communist nation landed an explorer on the dark side of the Moon in 2019 and is working on launching rockets powerful enough to send astronauts to the Moon by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>The war of words came as NASA dispatched a satellite to the Moon. Dubbed CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment), the spacecraft was launched a week ago from New Zealand\u2019s Mahia Peninsula by Rocket Lab. The satellite was set to orbit Earth for a while, then break away and use next to no internal energy as it makes its way to the Moon over the next four months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s probably going to take a while to sink in,\u201d Rocket Lab founder Peter Beck <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/space-launches-exploration-science-technology-peter-beck-d2748e44d427941f1352312ac954dd5d\">told<\/a> The Associated Press. \u201cIt\u2019s been a project that has taken us two, two-and-a-half years and is just incredibly, incredibly difficult to execute. So to see it all come together tonight and see that spacecraft on its way to the Moon, it\u2019s just absolutely epic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project cost $33 million, which, in the world of space exploration, is pocket change. \u201cFor some tens of millions of dollars, there is now a rocket and a spacecraft that can take you to the moon, to asteroids, to Venus, to Mars,\u201d Beck said. \u201cIt\u2019s an insane capability that\u2019s never existed before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, CAPSTONE will use its own propulsion and the Sun\u2019s gravity to navigate the rest of the way to the Moon, a four-month journey that will have CAPSTONE inserting into its near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon on Nov. 13,\u201d NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/artemis\/2022\/07\/04\/capstone-leaves-earth-orbit-headed-to-the-moon\/#:~:text=CAPSTONE%20communicates%20with%20Earth%20via,the%20Moon%20on%20Nov.%2013.\">said<\/a> in a press release. \u201cThe gravity-driven track will dramatically reduce the amount of fuel the CubeSat needs to get to its target orbit around the Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who owns the Moon? Nobody. But China is making a play, at least according to the head of NASA. China\u2019s National Space Administration might be planning a \u201ctakeover\u201d of the Moon as part of its military space program, NASA\u2019s administrator Bill Nelson has told the newspaper Bild. \u201cThere is a new race to space \u2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1539691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1539691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}