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Engineers work around hydrogen fuel leak, press ahead with countdown (spaceflightnow.com)
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[โ€“] mech@feddit.org 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is truly the space race 2.0:

After the Chinese have landed on the far side of the moon and the south pole for the first time ever, deployed rovers, returned tons of samples, have an ongoing mission on the surface since 2013, and deployed relay satellites to the Lagrange points, the US will drop some meat bags in suits 15 years later and declare themselves the winners.

[โ€“] OptimusPrimeDownfall@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

My brother in Christ, dropping meatbags in suits on the moon and keeping them alive for long periods is a lot harder than rovers.

Besides, with china being capitalist, competition is what they want, right?