/sci/ - Science & Math

Good for them, hope it works well. Think a lunar base is sort of a distraction apart from maybe trying to scrape off some ice for fuel depots or testing out self-sufficient tech.

It's retarded leaving the bugmen out of international space exploration.
The security thing is dumb, they can just hack or bribe one of the 40 other countries involved anyway.

>>12716825
Russia is very reliable in putting people in orbit, this will ensure that China can put astronauts in the space station that they will start building this year, in case problems appear.
So yes, with the experience of Russia, and the money and industrial base of China, the moon base is assured. This is really good, we need to go back to the Moon.

>>12716825
I just want land on Mars so I can farm and raise a family

>>12716833

Probably involve testing some mining equipment as well.

>>12716953
>we need to go back to the Moon
Why?

>>12717754
Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT?

>>12717947
Glib and inaccurate.

>>12717754
Because the Moon is close, we can test the technologies that we need to establish a base in Mars there, is a convenient point to jump to Mars and the belt, and it can use for several scientific purposes like telescopes, production of exotic materials and the like.

op America and the USSR signed a similar agreement in 1984, along with what would become ITER. Instead the USSR collapsed and we got the ISS ("Space Station Freedom") instead.

I'll gladly kneel for Russia if they send me a gf

>>12717754
Luna is the gateway to the rest of the universe.

>>12718001
based nazi

>>12718046
This.
When we have commited to the Moon, there`s finally not going back.

>>12718071

>>12716833
China needs to be turned in a nuclear waste dump, not be allowed to colonize the moon.

>>12717947
Based and cavepilled