{"id":29248,"date":"2016-08-22T21:03:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T04:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/chinas-race-to-space-domination-to-try-to-gain-an-edge-here-on-earth-china-is-pushing-ahead-in-space"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:54:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:54:49","slug":"chinas-race-to-space-domination-to-try-to-gain-an-edge-here-on-earth-china-is-pushing-ahead-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/chinas-race-to-space-domination-to-try-to-gain-an-edge-here-on-earth-china-is-pushing-ahead-in-space","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Race to Space Domination: To Try to Gain an Edge Here on Earth, China is Pushing Ahead in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-race-to-space-domination-to-try-to-gain-an-edge-here-on-earth-china-is-pushing-ahead-in-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More on China\u2019s race on Space. Last Tuesday, China launched the 1st Quantum Satellite. In 2017, China is planning to be the dominant force in mining of Space. First stop \u2014 mining the dark side of the moon. Given China\u2019s own history with environmental pollution plus mining\u2019s damaging effects to the environment when not properly managed; etc. one must ponder how will space and Earth itself be impacted by such mining.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Before this decade is out<\/strong>, humanity will go where it\u2019s never gone before: the far side of the moon. This dark side \u2014 forever facing away from us \u2014 has long been a mystery. No human-made object has ever touched its surface. The mission will be a marvel of engineering. It will involve a rocket that weighs hundreds of tons (traveling almost 250,000 miles), a robot lander, and an unmanned lunar rover that will use sensors, cameras, and an infrared spectrometer to uncover billion-year-old secrets from the soil. The mission also might scout the moon\u2019s supply of helium-3 \u2014 a promising material for fusion energy. And the nation planting its starry flag on this historic trip will be the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-race-to-space-domination-to-try-to-gain-an-edge-here-on-earth-china-is-pushing-ahead-in-space2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/space\/@mione\/china-s-race-to-space-domination-to-try-to-gain-an-edge-here-on-earth-china-is-pushing-ahead-in-space\">https:\/\/steemit.com\/space\/@mione\/china-s-race-to-space-domin...d-in-space<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on China\u2019s race on Space. Last Tuesday, China launched the 1st Quantum Satellite. In 2017, China is planning to be the dominant force in mining of Space. First stop \u2014 mining the dark side of the moon. Given China\u2019s own history with environmental pollution plus mining\u2019s damaging effects to the environment when not properly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,1617,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60677,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29248\/revisions\/60677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}