The Race Is On for the Dark Side of the Moon — and China Is Pushing Ahead of the Pack

The competition poses ‘major military implications for the U.S.,’ a professor of space policy says. ‘There is the danger that we might lose the strategic high ground to China.’

AP/John Raoux
A NASA moon rocket at the Kennedy Space Center, August 28, 2022, at Cape Canaveral, Florida. AP/John Raoux
M.J. KOCH
M.J. KOCH

Another race is on for America to beat Communist China, and this time it’s to be the first to walk on the dark side of the moon. 

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