The U. S. Must be first with the space elevator in order to maintain superiority in space Kent 07
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- China has been leapfrogging ahead technologically in its quest to become the dominant power on earth.
- They are sending their taikonauts with a purpose: to harvest helium 3
- US is already losing “space race” with China.
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- China, if it succeeded in its goal, would acquire enormous international prestige
Uniqueness China/MoonChina is kicking our ass in the new space race Fortenberry, 05 ( Thomas, American author, editor, reviewer, and publisher. Founder of Mind Fire Press and the international literary arts journal Mindfire, he has judged many literary contests, including The Georgia Author of the Year Awards and The Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction. Among other awards, such as twice winning Best Novella of the Year, he has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, thomasfortenberry.net, China Colonizing moon, http://thomasfortenberry.net/?p=188, JG) As I have been warning about for years, we are dangerously close to losing the new space race. We basically abandoned space after the moon landings, and have puttered along ever since with minimal effort by occasionally launching robotic probes. Sadly, a large number of those malfunctioned, were lost, or were stupidly mis-programmed and slammed into their targets like billion dollar bullets. We also kept the space shuttles flying (mostly), even though they were originally slated for phase out by 1980 at the latest. Not one to sit around, China has been leapfrogging ahead technologically in its quest to become the dominant power on earth. Beyond amazing military and economic expansions, they have also created a vibrant space program. They recently completed a series of manned space voyages and are now announcing their next great leap forward. China plans to put men on the moon by 2017. I mean Yue by 2017. But leave it to the practical Chinese to realize going to the moon should not just be a prestige-boosting photo opt, like it may have been largely for some in the past. They are sending their taikonauts with a purpose: to harvest helium 3, which is touted as the perfect energy source. And a nation like China, with the largest population and the world’s fastest growing, nay, dare I say booming, economy, needs all the fuel it can get. This excerpt from the below article spells out some of their goals: The project also includes setting up a moon-based astronomical telescope, measuring the thickness of the moon’s soil and the amount of helium-3 on the moon — an element some researchers say is a perfect, nonpolluting fuel source. Some scientists believe there is enough helium-3 on the moon to power the world for thousands of years. So, while we waste 3 billion dollars a month cleaning sand out of hummers in Bush’s Iraqi playground, the Chinese are planning on the conquest of the moon — well, I mean if you think that voyaging to, placing men on, exploring, and harvesting its natural resources constitutes colonization. It stated several years ago it planned to colonize the moon in 20 years, so anyone who thinks differently is a fool. My guess is that if the Chinese get there first before we ever wake up and return, we can kiss any Lunar Colony good bye. Much like Taiwan being forbidden from even officially declaring independence, when they want something they do it and have the military and economic might to back it up. They will not fear us or anyone else who dares to stand in the giant’s way, because they could collapse our economy overnight if they saw fit to call in the massive debts the Bush administration has rung up on the Chinese credit card. If we let them settle on the moon first, when ever we decide to return we will find the moon already has a proprietor and its lands may be closed to new business, especially foreigners. Notice in the article that America has scrambled to unveil a new manned moon mission set for, you guessed it, 2018. Gee, we’ve had since 1969 to be colonizing the moon, and now that someone else is on the way we finally get our ass in gear a full year too late. But who knows when it will really be given the usual cost overruns, cutbacks, experimentation, and red tape wrangling that always occurs. What an embarrassment. China.'>US is already losing “space race” with China. Malik 6 (Tariq, managing editor at Space.com, “Article: Race the Red Planet: Production Begins on Mars Mission Mini-Series”, May, 11. 2006, http://www.space.com/2398-race-red-planet-production-begins-mars-mission-mini-series.html) OP China too - with its steady string of human spaceflight successes and lofty space station and lunar plans--also provides a real life hook in a time where human spaceflight seems to lack the emphatic and unified public support that pushed NASA to the Moon during the Apollo era. Some members of Congress have even said that the U.S. is already in a new space race with China, and already losing. If US doesn’t act now China will gain the majority of lunar resources AFAR 2004 (The Association for Asian Research is a non-profit, non-governmental research institute that provides current affairs stories. The Chinese Threat to American Leadership in Space (Part II). http://asianresearch.org/articles/2979.html) hss China, if it succeeded in its goal, would acquire enormous international prestige. However, most significantly, by establishing permanent bases on the Moon, China would gain the ability to exploit lunar resources and therefore gain important technological advantages over other nations (including nuclear fusion, using the helium 3 isotope), with concrete consequences on Earth's activities. Walker's conclusion is that the Chinese space program has yet to be taken seriously by American politicians. Nevertheless, it represents a serious challenge to the US leadership in Space. The US must answer such a challenge by developing new technologies (for instance, the nuclear plasma propulsion system) in order to reach the Moon and Mars faster than currently possible, and to travel more frequently and thriftily into Earth's low orbit. 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