This year’s conference will put the space minds of two top rivals – the U.S. and China – under one roof. “This is the most exciting time in space since the Apollo era in the 1960s,” he told Reuters. NASA administrator Bill Nelson is expected to rally support at IAC for agency’s strategy to tap private companies to replace the ageing International Space Station after its 2030 retirement. The U.S. and China are also racing to land this decade the first humans on the moon since the last American Apollo mission in 1972. The two space powers are aggressively courting partner countries and leaning heavily on private companies for their moon programmes, shaping the space objectives of smaller space agencies along the way.

Source: The Patriot October 14, 2024 17:56 UTC