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[Eric Berger] NASA’s acting chief (Sean Duffy) “angry” about talk that China will beat US back to the Moon (arstechnica.com)

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[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Wait, I thought we were done with the moon and aiming for Mars. Why would we care if another country "beats" us to the place we first went to 56 years ago?

Maybe we should look more at how China is going to start beating us on earth science research due to defunding NASA's earth science mandate?