Name: Why a China Space Race is a Good Thing
Uploaded: 2021-05-17T02:03:51.000Z
Duration: 13 min 17 s
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a controversial security law in Hong Kong,

to China's global infrastructure projects,

there is undeniably a Cold War-like battle

to achieving what the U.S. has, they're catching up.

Since 2018, China has launched more rockets into orbit

In 2019, they became the first to land a rover

And in 2020, China released the last satellite

in their global navigation satellite system,

called Beidou, China's answer to the U.S.-made GPS.

Like China's big infrastructure projects here on Earth,

their goals are to get a foothold in space technology

make them independent from U.S. technology,

of sending Americans back to the moon and beyond to Mars.

has dangerous political and economic implications,

a race to the cosmos, like any good rivalry,

could be a huge benefit for space and other industries.

If you think that the U.S.-China competition

is going to be not just a clash of strategies,

or Chinese-style authoritarian capitalism

is best suited to the demands of the 21st century,

make investments in infrastructure and education

In 1957, the Soviet Union shocked the world

by putting the first ever satellite into space, Sputnik 1.

There is real military significance to these launchings.

technological gap between the United States

And so the National Defense Education Act of 1957

that were considered critical to staying ahead

And so the rise of entire industries like aerospace,

the rise of entire regions like Silicon Valley

or Orange County, semiconductors, the Internet,

a variety of other things that we associate

as part of the military industrial complex

And let me say that our scientists and engineers,

in offering their services to the government in this field,

have been generous, patriotic and prompt.

In the Eisenhower years and then Kennedy years,

the U.S. started pouring money into the space program.

By, I think mid-1960s, the U.S. was spending about

It was the largest percentage of the budget

Including the first living animal to enter space by Russia.

And the first probe to land on the moon, also Russia.

And so that led to a huge surge in U.S. spending

which culminated in 1969 with Neil Armstrong

And as U.S.-Soviet relations improved, space spending waned.

I think that one of the reasons that the U.S.

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