{"id":1760926,"date":"2022-12-03T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T11:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1760926"},"modified":"2022-12-03T10:48:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T15:48:31","slug":"china-and-america-are-locked-in-a-historic-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-and-america-are-locked-in-a-historic-space-race\/","title":{"rendered":"China and America Are Locked In a Historic Space Race"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fchina-and-america-are-locked-in-a-historic-space-race%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=1760926&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NASA-Space-Shuttle-Discovery.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/cold-war\/space-race#who-won-the-space-race\"><span>The \u201cSpace Race,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span> which began more than a decade earlier, was \u201cwon\u201d when United States astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin \u201cBuzz\u201d Aldrin<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecommercetimes.com\/story\/the-50th-anniversary-of-apollo-11-there-and-back-again-86128.html?cat_id=210\"> <span>landed on the moon on July 20, 1969<\/span><\/a><span>. Armstrong proclaimed, \u201cOne small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind,\u201d and it was truly a leap ahead of the Soviet Union, which had launched an<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/airandspace.si.edu\/exhibitions\/space-race\/online\/sec200\/sec250.htm#:~:text=R%2D7%3A%20THE%20WORLD&#039;S%20FIRST%20ICBM&#038;text=Successfully%20flight%20tested%20in%20August,the%20world&#039;s%20first%20artificial%20satellite.\"> <span>R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile named \u201cSputnik\u201d<\/span><\/a><span> (Russian for \u201ctraveler\u201d) into orbit on October 4, 1957.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>That moment was a wake-up call for the United States, as the Soviets had become the first to launch a man-made object into space. Then in April 1961,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/ESA_history\/50_years_of_humans_in_space\/Yuri_Gagarin\"> <span>Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin<\/span><\/a><span> became the first person to orbit Earth, traveling in the capsule-like spacecraft Vostok 1.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>It appeared the U.S. was losing the Space Race.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>While Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later, President John F. Kennedy then vowed that the U.S. would land a man on the moon before the end of the decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The promise was fulfilled, and now more than 50 years later, the U.S. is on track to return back to the lunar surface.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Last month, the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/11\/artemis-i-mission-finally-takes-off-for-the-moon\/\"> <span>U.S. launched the Artemis I,<\/span><\/a><span> an unmanned spacecraft that will travel to \u2013 and around \u2013 the moon. It is meant to pave the way for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/take-a-tour-of-nasas-space-shuttle-discovery-the-longest-serving-orbiter\/\">NASA<\/a> to return astronauts to the lunar surface, while it has been touted as being a critical next step toward sending humans to Mars.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Space Race 2.0 is Underway<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>However, the U.S. could once again be in a race \u2013 this time with China.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Nina Armagno, director of staff of the U.S. Space Force,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/11\/28\/china-poses-increasing-threat-in-military-space-race-top-us-general-says.html\"> <span>warned that Beijing<\/span><\/a><span> has made significant progress in developing military space technology, including in areas such as satellite communications and re-useable spacecraft, which it coud use to rapidly scale up its space programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think it\u2019s entirely possible they could catch up and surpass us, absolutely,\u201d Armagno said at an event in Sydney run by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a research organization partly funded by the U.S. and Australian governments. \u201cThe progress they\u2019ve made has been stunning, stunningly fast.\u201d<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Last month, China<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/11\/does-china-have-its-very-own-x-37b-spaceplane-maybe\/\"> <span>conducted the second launch of its useable space plane.<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>China\u2019s Great Leap into Space<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Throughout Cold War 1.0, China lagged behind both the U.S. and Soviet efforts. However, it benefited from the cordial Sino-Soviet relations of the 1950s as Moscow had engaged in a cooperative technology transfer program, which essentially kick-started Beijing\u2019s space program. As the relationship turned confrontational due to ideological differences, Soviet assistance to China was abruptly withdrawn.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>As a result China\u2019s space efforts were limited until the 1990s \u2013 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union \u2013 when it once again relied on Russian technology.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Beijing is set to make its great leap forward into space.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>On Tuesday,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/29\/world\/china-space-station-astronauts-launch-scn\"><span> it launched three astronauts<\/span><\/a> <span>to its space station. It has been seen as a major milestone for its emerging space program. And like the United States, China has aimed to put an astronaut on the moon by 2020.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[China] is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to achieve that objective,\u201d Armagno added.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>There is a concern that much like the Soviet Union and more recently Russia, China\u2019s approach is somewhat \u201creckless\u201d as its rocket tests have created dangerous amounts of space debris, which Armagno warned pose a threat to many systems in space \u2013 including those vital to all nations\u2019 security, economic and scientific interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some policy experts in Washington have recently stated that the U.S. Space Force, the sixth and newest branch of the U.S. military, is unequipped to take on emerging space threats from China and Russia. A report from the Heritage Foundation \u2013 the 2023 Index of U.S. Military Strength \u2013<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militaryaerospace.com\/blogs\/article\/14285360\/neglect-degradation-inflation\"> <span>classified the Space Force as \u201cweak.\u201d<\/span><\/a><span> The service has<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/bidens-2023-defense-budget-adds-billions-for-u-s-space-force\/\"> <span>already called for a $24.5 billion budget increase<\/span><\/a><span> to address the threat from China. It is unclear if that will actually be enough.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>The question is whether that is really enough as Beijing appears set to go all in on outer space.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><span>A Senior Editor for 1945, Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer. He has<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/news.clearancejobs.com\/author\/peter-suciu\/\"> <i><span>contributed<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span> to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers, and websites with over 3,000 published pieces over a twenty-year career in journalism. He regularly writes about military hardware, firearms history, cybersecurity, and international affairs. Peter is also a<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/petersuciu\/?sh=2a2f53789bd3\"> <i><span>Contributing Writer<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span> for Forbes and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearancejobs.com\/\"> <i><span>Clearance Jobs<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>. You can follow him on Twitter:<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petersuciu\"> <i><span>@PeterSuciu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cSpace Race,\u201d which began more than a decade earlier, was \u201cwon\u201d when United States astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin \u201cBuzz\u201d Aldrin landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1737961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760926","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1737961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}