China completes the first soft landing on the moon, most certainly to be followed by landing humans on the moon, not in the too distant future. And, the US the lead the space race for decades is quickly falling behind (and not just behind China). What happened to us? Is China just wasting money on their space program while we have wised up and realized that such investment may not be worth it? I don't think so!
I believe we have just gotten complacent and allowed this to happen. There is no question that space will be the arena where market competition will be taking place in the future. There is also no doubt (in my mind) that if one wants to be ready to compete in the future, they need to start preparing now!!! Unfortunately, our leaders have lost sight of that :-( We'll ALLsee the results and pay the consequences, in the future, but it will be too late to do anything about it.
Sad, sad state of affairs.
