{"id":73729,"date":"2017-11-11T03:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T11:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/air-force-general-says-china-is-advancing-in-space-five-times-as-quickly-as-the-us"},"modified":"2017-11-11T03:02:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T11:02:28","slug":"air-force-general-says-china-is-advancing-in-space-five-times-as-quickly-as-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/air-force-general-says-china-is-advancing-in-space-five-times-as-quickly-as-the-us","title":{"rendered":"Air Force general says China is advancing in space five times as quickly as the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/air-force-general-says-china-is-advancing-in-space-five-times-as-quickly-as-the-us.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Air Force lieutenant general Steve Kwast believes a \u201cKitty Hawk\u201d moment will begin a new era in space. But while the U.S. still leads every other country in space, Kwast cautions that edge is whittling away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my best military judgement China is on a 10-year journey to operationalize space. We\u2019re on a 50-year journey,\u201d Kwast told CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>Kwast, who is also the commander and president of Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, says the United States must \u201cbring together the right talent to accelerate the journey\u201d in a Manhattan Project-like meeting of minds. He says this would push the space industry to an moment like Wright Brothers had when they completed the first successful airplane flight in 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/11\/10\/usaf-general-steve-kwast-china-in-space-five-times-faster-than-us.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/11\/10\/usaf-general-steve-kwast-chi...an-us.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force lieutenant general Steve Kwast believes a \u201cKitty Hawk\u201d moment will begin a new era in space. But while the U.S. still leads every other country in space, Kwast cautions that edge is whittling away. \u201cIn my best military judgement China is on a 10-year journey to operationalize space. We\u2019re on a 50-year journey,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73729","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}