WHO IS GOING TO OWN THE MOON?

China could claim the moon as its own territory and BAN US astronauts from touching down, NASA boss warns - as the two countries battle in new space race to land on the lunar surface again

 

Daily Mail 

January 1, 2023

 

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson (right) says he and others within the scientific agency are growing increasingly concerned over what China plans to do when they make it to the moon (inset). 

Nelson believes China could attempt to corner the market on resource-rich locations on the moon's surface and try to block out the U.S. and other countries looking to make it to the lunar object.' 

There is potentially mischief China can do on the moon,' said one other official monitoring the 'space race.' 

Nelson's concerns come less than one month after three Chinese astronauts returned from a six month trip in which they helped to build and open a new space station. 

China in the last few years alone has launched orbiters, landers, and rovers that have reached the moon and Mars.