Bill Nelson affirms that the Asian country intends to build a lunar base in collaboration with Russia
The director of the American space agency NASA, bill nelsonwarned in an interview with the German tabloid newspaper ‘Bild’ that China intends to build a lunar base in collaboration with Russia, in what would be a first step to “seize” the satellite. “We must be very worried that China is going to land on the Moon to say: now it’s ours and you stay outNelson said in the interview, published on Saturday.
Nelson believes that there is a new space race to reach the Moon, “this time with China”. In particular there would be a race for control the south pole of the moon by presence of water deposits that could be used to make rocket fuel.
When questioned about the purpose of the Chinese presence in space, Elson responded indignantly: “Well, what do you think is going on in the Chinese space station? There they learn how to destroy other people’s satellites.”
Thus, he pointed out that China has spent years researching technology to “catch” satellites with robotic arms or nets or crash them, supposedly to clean up their own space debris, but could also be used to attack other countries.
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The head of NASA stressed that “China’s space program is a military space program” and has once again denounced the technology theftthat has promoted its nuclear program. “China is good, but China is also good because it steals ideas and technology from others,” she said.
USA is already working on the launch of the new generation of lunar missionswhich plans to carry out a new manned voyage to the Moon by 2025 in which, for the first time, a woman will travel. Beijing goes further and hopes to have an operational lunar base in 2035.
