Even the Canadian Jeremy Hansen in this photo, has to leave low Earth orbit with the AmericansWhat are the odds that no country: not Japan, not China, not Russia, etc cannot sent humans beyond the low earth orbit even today without an American rocket
So people here are going to support the black people who helped us pull this off right?
>>16961363China will probably have the ability and economy to do so soon, and will try it. They have shown they have at least some of the scrap needed for difficult missions (only other country besides the U.S. to actually successfully do anything on Mars, for example).But it is likely that - barring wrenches from politicians or institutional corruption/rot - the US will continue to dominate space, and that this will accelerate as they continue to reduce their costs and potentially build permanent non-symbolic orbital infrastructure.
>>16961485Occam's razor would make us conclude there is no need for these elaborate explanations why only one country can send humans beyond low earth orbit. It is trivial: the Americans are faking humans beyond low earth orbit.
>>16961491retard
>>16961363ESA and Germany get partial credit, even though they didn't send one of their own astronauts
>>16961485Yeah, but Chinese policy (see Xi Jinping's Governance of China) is more about developing the home front economically, establishing trade relations globally, and attempting to create sustainable development. Unlike the Soviets, space race mania isn't really in their agenda as much as nuclear fusion or cheap solar. Moreover, NASA got a budget cut already, and will likely get more thanks to orange man's weekend war. They will probably manage to stretch resources and put man on the moon again (hopefully without disaster), but a moon base requires a lot more funding and logistic planning, likely with scientists from EU or elsewhere as different areas of expertise may be needed. Even with the ISS such cooperation was a nightmare to pull off, with a moon base serving specifically American interests it's not gonna work at all. And the figures for funding needed would be laughed at in the halls of government.Without a moon base, any manned mission to the moon is essentially useless economically. And China has nothing to worry about if so.
>>16961521The military may want another shot at the moon belonging to them>they can't do thatBecause a piece of paper says so? If recent years have shown anything, it's that an international agreement to do anything isn't worth wiping your ass with.
OP go and look up who made the service module then suck my scientific dick
>>16961521>Moreover, NASA got a budget cut already, and will likely get more thanks to orange man's weekend war.The entire Chinese economy will get a budget cut if the "weekend war" goes into June, i.e. a depression. lrn2geopolitics
>>16961609Americans signing you a welfare check does not make you important.
>>16961554The military may, but le orange man must decide that his cuckoldry fetish with Israel and Iran must be stopped. There is no moon base while the US is engaged in war, much less the “pump and dump before weekends” scheme he’s running. Moreover, recent years have shown international agreements are harder to make due to exactly the ass wiping you mentioned, so getting European expertise for whatever niche but critical reason for the base is now harder.>we don’t need thatWe needed that for the ISS, for moon sample analysis, and for mars data analysis. It will def be needed for moon base.>>16961629So will that entire half of the world tho. Gonna look real interesting the more the war drags on.
>>16961491the thinking emojis are the chef's kiss
>>16961509>>16961609> I bet all the parts are sourced in China, so China sent their citizens beyond the low earth orbit too.See how retarded that sounds?
>>16961521>NASA got a budget cut already,Technically true but not actually impactful. They could easily cover that tiny gap by eliminating DEI outreach programs. Also presidents request budgets but don't set them. That's Congress's job. Regardless of it a president ask for one dollar or a trillion dollars, it's still Congress that has the power of the purse.
