Space race widens to include China, India and Japan

On Monday, the United States celebrated the 40th anniversary of the first moon walk — but since 1969, the space race has widened far beyond U.S-Russian competition to include countries such as China, India and Japan.

Last September, China launched a 60-hour mission highlighted by the countrys first space walk. China hopes to land an unmanned rover on the moon by 2012 and a manned mission by around 2020, the same year the U.S. hopes to return to the moon.

Asif Siddiqi, a professor of history at Fordham University, joins Martin Savidge to discuss the future of space exploration for the international community.

http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/07/20/space-race-widens-to-include-china-indi...

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[dgleason2]

if its a global world....why arent we in these programs together.....

Oct 9th....

[AlexandruUrsachi]

@dgleason2

We should be together, but a competitive spirit is healthy because it fuels progress and innovation. But it should be a competition that has the general progress of humanity as its ultimate goal.

[chotuzwazzz]

21th Century Belongs To Russia & Asians :D

[grasshoper50]

India should be gladfull to have china counterweigh usa, then you can show up the shit crap, if India had the big heart to do ahead of china, why did not it happen the first place, because india knew its treatment from US

[jaysin1001]

why does india always sound like "!!india!!"...fuck..they think we aint capable of doing it?...LOL...

[chinkykong]

India should arrest all the Maoist guerillas and ship them to China one way ticket.

[GameronMaximus]

give me a fucking su 37 gx terminator when the war begins so that i dont die begging for my life.

[poouopo]

great point