NASA Sounds Alarm on Chinese

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The level of geo-political tomfoolery set to play out on the surface of the Moon is nothing short of unprecedented. Even if Artemis III does land Americans and one Canadian on the Lunar South Pole, the Chinese could simply claim the North Pole or anywhere else it pleases that Western superpowers have yet to touch down upon yet.
The level of division and tension this causes between the global powers remains to be seen. But whatever the case, watching it all pan out in front of our very eyes will be nothing short of the best show on television. Or the internet, for that matter.
With the signing of the Artemis Accords in 2020, it won't just be the Americans duking out with the Chinese up there. In due time, representatives from as many as 23 countries across the globe will get to hitch a ride as well. The entire world in space? Now that's a timeline we want to live in.
In the end, the end objectives of all the world's current human-crewed space initiatives are ostensibly very different from the days of Apollo, the Saturn V, Leonov, and Armstrong. It's no secret that politics and little else were the impetus behind the first Soviet and American human-crewed space programs