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Här har har den konservative kolumnisten Charles Krauthammer en artikel i Washington Post om hur Obama genom att lägga ner rymdskyttelprogrammet utan några andra alternativ redo, har kapitulerat den rymdfront som kännetecknat USA och NASA:s expertis - till Ryssland och Kina. Krauthammer skriver:
The pity is not Discovery’s retirement — beautiful as it was, the shuttle proved too expensive and risky to operate — but that it died without a successor. The planned follow-on — the Constellation rocket-capsule program to take humans back into orbit and from there to the moon — was suddenly canceled in 2010. And with that, control of manned spaceflight was gratuitously ceded to Russia and China.
Russia went for the cash, doubling its price for carrying an astronaut into orbit to $55.8 million. (Return included. Thank you, Boris.)
China goes for the glory. Having already mastered launch and rendezvous, the Chinese plan to land on the moon by 2025. They understand well the value of symbols. And nothing could better symbolize China overtaking America than its taking our place on the moon, walking over footprints first laid down, then casually abandoned, by us.
Källa: Washington Post
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