Conspiracy theory?

I hope those commies pull a challenger and blow up before they ever reach orbit. Only countries with unopressed people should be allowed to go to the moon. What does that say about the world if a commie nation can get to the moon? "Kill your own people with a hammer and sickle and you can go the the moon one day!" I guess the rocket will be fueled by the blood of the 80 million people Mao killed. No this isnt right. We should have won in Nam to prevent this bullshit from happening. Screw it. Declare war on china right now. Forget this Libya crap. China is the source of it all. Sure they have a lot of people, but they are probably starved to death and our soldiers are actually fed and well trained. We could take that country in 3 days, turn it into real estate for Mcdonalds and free a good percentage of the world from communism. USA!

There is no money to be made from helping the poor so why would they?it is all about making money in this world.

With their huge population they're trying to be first to colonize the moon. This is the their plan, "explore" while secretly building bases and claiming all the best craters!

I say we send our own rockets to moon to call "dibs" on that prime real estate. No more terrorists or economic woes. In a few hundred years, all the earthers will be begging for a way to get over there.

As much as China is trying to become a world power house, I don't think the government really cares about the well being of its people per se but more about industrialization and who can do what first on the technological frontier.

Hopefully China will push on afterwards with a Mars mission or something similar.
It might light a fire up the US Senates ass to inject more money into NASA, and hopefully the result will be more exploration of our solar system & beyond...

See what the goverment fails to realise is that the money invested into NASA (& its civilian contracters) in the Sixties & Seventies, laid down the foundations for modern consumer electronics, which resulted in the US becoming the major player in world electronics & computing. We'd probably be 10-15 years behind in personal computing, and 30 years behind in physics, if it wasn't for Kennedy's pledge in Sep 1962.

And maybe an even more important, invisible legacy of the Apollo missions, is that it inspired millions of people around the world to get involved in the science subjects, which is vital for pushing forward new green technoligies and life saving medications ect.

Well the US on the whole has a spending problem and has to cut back on research. A number of valuable research installations are actually on the line because financing has to go into other projects. The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is losing funding so fast but it made significant discoveries in the past. I guess if the cost/benefit is not good these days, they just simple scrap it.

XD very unlikely