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Chinese moon base will send the chuds reeling
100% chance they'll just insist China is lying about it. They'll scream until they are blue in the face that China is just "faking" their moon base, even if it ends up being literally visible from earth with a telescope.
That'd be so fucking cool. Being able to just take a squizz at some dudes on the moon.
Lunar base shaped like a hammer and sickle to dab on the capitalists would go extremely hard
"That's no moon!"
For real. At this rate America won't even get it's little lunar orbital in place on schedule meanwhile China is gonna be building a base. It's kinda pathetic.
Oh, Lunar Gateway is an even stupider project than that. It was only proposed because the SLS rocket that was planned to launch Orion capsules is too underpowered to put the overweight Orion capsules into lunar orbit. SLS can either launch flyby missions, or it can put Orion into that wacky halo orbit to dock with Gateway so crew can transfer to the Starship-derived lander.
SLS can't be made for higher performance because it was specifically planned to reuse space shuttle components. And that reuse was planned because it reduces R&D expenses for the defence contractors involved in the project - particularly Northrop Grumman and Boeing.
It's going to be a running theme of the next few decades i feel. Americans failing to compete because they are too corrupt, and profit focused to be viable. Wonder how long it'll be before America has to beg China to save some stranded American astronaut who got sent halfway to the moon in a SpaceX Starship, and the thing just failed.