"Space," we are told in one moderately successful 1960s-era television drama, is the "final frontier."
But as Washington Post staff writer Christian Davenport explains in his recent history of space exploration in America, , space is simultaneously just the newest frontier of competition between the United States and China. This is a competition America really ought to have won easily, given its fifty-year technological lead over China. Instead, space has become a contest that it might lose if America doesn't get its act together.
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