17 July 2019
With the coming 50th anniversary of the moon landing, Wang Ya'nan, chief editor of Aerospace Knowledge magazine, speculated that China will be "technically ready" for a manned lunar landing by around 2035, establishing a permanent lunar base rather than NASA's symbolic footprint of 1969. In an interview with CBS Face the Nation on Sunday NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said that "We're so far ahead of China right now, it's not even a comparison." In reply, Wang noted that China has never chased a ranking in the space sector.
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