PLN #8

Reading the article "China will beat us to the Moon" intrigued me because it just shows that China is continuesly advancing more than the U.S. as time goes on. Fifty tears ago today there was a race between the U. S. and the Soviets to launch the first satellite into space and as we all know Soviets won but the U.S. put the first man on the moon. Now, nearly fifty years later there is a restored race in the universe world. Recently the Chinese and united states have figured out that they both plane to attempt to put a man on the moon within 1-2 years of each other and recently there has been an "unwritten race" to see who can do it first. NASA officials aren't very confident and believe the Chinese will slightly beat us. Both are expected to launch around the year 2020 but with setbacks it's expected to take a little longer. While the U.S. is much more technology advanced we don't have the political will that the Chinese do and therefore have less resources causing the operation to take much longer. China, who just launched their first space machine (becoming the third country to do so) is moving very quickly in their space economics.