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Space X's moon landing program was called to a halt. The reason is this, the old American spaceflight is too weird

Why was the SpaceX moon landing program called off?

By dardani lennonPublished 2 years ago 3 min read

In the field of spaceflight, our country has participated very little in the last century. Basically, the United States and the Soviet Union are doing things. Our most famous one may only be Dongfanghong 1, but the times are advancing. Today in the 21st century, we It has become one of the aerospace powers, not only launching the first probe to land on the back of the moon, but also about to start scientific research work on Mars.

Because at present the world's most powerful aerospace field is us and the United States. Russia is not as conspicuous as the Soviet Union, and it is about the third place. Then, under such circumstances, many people will discuss who is more powerful. There is no way. Contributing to the whole of mankind, many people don't listen to it. Maybe it's the reason why everyone has a desire to compare.

my country's aerospace is basically a state-owned enterprise, and the private sector should not emerge for the time being. In contrast, NASA is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Under its banner, there are Amazon's Blue Origin and Musk's Space X. These are the backbone of American aerospace. .

Then let's compare the progress bar of the aerospace program. Note that the progress bar here is a future goal and may not be achieved.

NASA's space mission indicators have been initially revealed. For example, as early as a few years ago, they announced that they would complete the manned mission to Mars within 25 years, and then the famous return to the moon plan, because since Armstrong landed in the last century. After the moon, the United States has not been on the moon for decades. The return to the moon this time is different from the previous landings. The United States seems to be considering building a lunar base or something.

Regarding our country, there was only big news a few days ago, that is, we are going to build the largest international space station in Earth orbit. Before that, there were two space stations in orbit from the United States and Russia, but because they have been working continuously for more than ten years , they are all on the verge of being decommissioned or about to be decommissioned, that is to say, in the next few decades, we may be the only international space station. As for the Mars plan, in addition to the current Tianwen-1, there will be a Mars sampling return mission in about 2030. Finally, there is a very shocking place, which is to fly to the edge of the solar system on the centenary of its establishment in 2049!

Finally, there is a tidbit of news about Space X's lunar landing program being called off

NASA was recently criticized by name. Which boss dares to complain about NASA so boldly? It turned out that under its banner, these private aerospace companies have to bid. They are not just dream companies, but they have to eat the US aerospace funds, and maybe space X has done better in recent years, so the funds are basically It was taken away by Musk, and the lunar lander program on the moon was also successfully bid by Space X. Under the circumstances of thousands of pets, others finally couldn't bear it.

So Amazon's Blue Origin, and other private aerospace companies, clapped their flags, believing that they favored Space X too much. This unfair phenomenon has led to the marginalization of other companies, the lack of funding, and their already weak strength. To make matters worse, it could destroy the enthusiasm of the US space industry.

There was a lot of noise, and finally the Space X moon landing plan was temporarily suspended. NASA may be under pressure to transfer the mission to others. I have to say that this is an American joke. Orders won by others were inexplicably stopped. , The so-called anti-monopoly law is temporarily not applicable in the high-end field of aerospace, right?

You know, since the last century, humans have launched a lot of spacecraft and established a large number of space missions, but the overall success rate is very low, and more than half of the missions have failed. Under such circumstances, of course We should choose the party with better technology to do it, improve the success rate as much as possible, and jointly contribute to the community with a shared future for mankind.

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