<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Have you looked at what happened prior to Trump, especially under Obama? The COTS program (sure, started under Bush fils, but came to fruition during Obama’s tenure), for instance, and the various interplanetary missions.<div><br></div><div>Actually, there’s no reason everyone can’t win in space. I don’t see Chinese success as negating anyone else’s. <br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 13, 2020, at 12:01 AM, Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>As I see things:</span><br><span></span><br><span>1. If Trump wins US astronauts will probably walk on the Moon before</span><br><span>the end of the decade. Not by 2024 (the last year of Trump's second</span><br><span>term), which doesn't seem feasible. But enough money will have been</span><br><span>spent on Artemis by the end of 2014 to make it impossible for the next</span><br><span>administration to cancel the program. So, humans on the Moon by the</span><br><span>end of the decade. But this would be yet another unsustainable stunt</span><br><span>without a clear follow-up strategy.</span><br><span></span><br><span>2. If Trump loses, good bye Artemis and the hope to return to the</span><br><span>Moon. The US space program will be limited to politically correct</span><br><span>Earth and climate science missions, with some token planetary and</span><br><span>space science missions.</span><br><span></span><br><span>3. There's no hope of real bipartisan support for ambitious space</span><br><span>programs. Not in these days of toxic political polarization between</span><br><span>two camps that hate each other and don't want to work together for the</span><br><span>common good.</span><br><span></span><br><span>4. China wins.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Did I miss something?</span><br><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>