China cactching up quick!

Originally posted by American Mad Man
Uhhh, people - we have nothing to prove in another race to the moon. We beat Russia there 40 some odd years ago, nd Russia then was much more powerful then China now.

Why spend billions of dollars on something we know we can do, and have een able to do for close to half a century?

Now if they were talking about mars, that would be a race.

I am wondering whether US has the capability to fly man to Moon again today, if the past were true. Anyone has a good guess on the cost, and the time needed to accompolish? Thanks.

theres a lot of talk about the BRIC countries in economics journals. These are brazil (?? why??), russia, india and china. Countries which have the capacity to be huge world players and from what i seen, india and china are heading that way with chinas economy overtaking usas by 2050 and india's overtaking britains by 2050, i think. Maybe earlier? everyone gives dif estimates.

Basically what about a space race between these countries at some point in the future??