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HildemarTendler t1_iyf6a6f wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Chinese milestone sets stage for new space race with U.S. by Soupjoe5

But what is the race? What are we racing towards? Is this just a "who can spend the most" race? Are we racing to colonise the moon? Get someone to Mars? What's the end game?

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KiwieeiwiK t1_iyfby2z wrote

There was no end game to the first space race, the idea of humans on the moon being the finishing line came much later, and mostly after the US had done it and the USSR had failed to. The space race began in 1955, before anyone had even got anything into space, the idea that "we are going to walk on the moon before you" was some kind of goal of the US is absurd.

The first real target of the space race was to get a satellite into orbit.

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horsemagicians t1_iyfbiva wrote

There’s always competition whether you want to admit it or not. US officials have so why don’t you?

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Mak_2022 t1_iyf9rh8 wrote

To the West, its always a race; a me against you thing; the Chinese could simply be learning from the west an doing their thing and not necessarily trying to compete

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