NASA administrator Bill Nelson said recently that it is important for the United States to return to the moon before China stakes its claim.
During an interview, NPR’s Scott Detrow questioned him about recent speeches wherein Nelson kept coming back to the subject of China, the outlet reported Monday.
Detrow asked why it mattered so much to him that America beats China in returning to the moon.
This 20 July 1969 file photo released by NASA shows astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. saluting the US flag on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 lunar mission (NASA/AFP/Getty Images).
In answer to his question, Nelson said:
First of all, I don’t give a lot of speeches about China, but people ask a lot of questions about China. And it’s important simply because, I know what China has done on the face of the Earth, for example, where the Spratly Islands, they…
