The world vies for a slice of China’s new sample from the Moon’s far side, a new scrap of spacecraft crops up in the woods of North Carolina, and other ways the space world went to pieces this week.
To date there’s been no corroboration of Chang’e’s successful landing, let alone the authenticity of the return flight and lunar surface samples. As is probably the case for most of us in space operations, we’re looking at China space agency claims that this mission was completed. In any event, China’s entire space program is based and founded entirely on spacecraft and launch technology and IP stolen from NASA and western space agencies. Maybe this was a successful landing and maybe it wasn’t but the only certainty about any Chinese claims about superiority in space systems are pure propaganda bs.
To date there’s been no corroboration of Chang’e’s successful landing, let alone the authenticity of the return flight and lunar surface samples. As is probably the case for most of us in space operations, we’re looking at China space agency claims that this mission was completed. In any event, China’s entire space program is based and founded entirely on spacecraft and launch technology and IP stolen from NASA and western space agencies. Maybe this was a successful landing and maybe it wasn’t but the only certainty about any Chinese claims about superiority in space systems are pure propaganda bs.