I’ll confess to schadenfreude from this CNN headline: “China postpones launch of unprecedented water-hunting moon mission amid space race.”
Seventy years after the United States rose to the challenge posed by the Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite, Americans are only dimly aware that the race to colonize the Moon and access its resources is just as business. Indeed, the stakes are even higher.
The mantra of my “Dust Mites” novels is that he who controls the Moon controls cis-lunar space. He who controls cis-lunar space dominates the Earth.