According to a warning issued by the Russian Aerospace Group News Service on the 9th of this month, a fragment of a Chinese meteorological satellite that was destroyed in 2007 because of China's testing of anti-satellite weapons will enter a dangerous distance sufficient to threaten the International Space Station at about 3:56 Moscow time on November 12 after calculations. However, Russian space group sources also revealed that this situation is not unusual, and this time in order to deal with the threat of satellite debris, the Russian flight control center will carry out a evasion maneuver on the evening of the 10th to ensure that the International Space Station will not collide with these space junks, and then Russia will use cargo spacecraft to raise the height of the space station by 1.2 kilometers.
On the same day that this news appeared, NASA also announced a blockbuster news, that is, the US manned moon landing plan will have to be postponed for one year, and it will be implemented as early as 2025.
The reason given by NASA Director Nielsen was based on various factors such as the new crown epidemic and the lawsuit with Blue Origin, but Nielsen did not forget to take China as a case, falsely claiming that China is an "aggressive competitor" because China's space program is "progressing rapidly", so NASA must significantly increase its budget in the future to win the moon landing plan.
In fact, comparing the two news, it is not difficult to find that the relationship between China and Russia, and between China and the United States in the field of space, there is a clear opposition. Due to the influence of the anti-China atmosphere in China, even a department specializing in technology such as NASA has to "give political priority", and Nelson, as a member of the extreme anti-China forces in the United States, has compared the respective moon landing plans of China and the United States to the Us and the Soviet Space Race during the Cold War. However, from a practical point of view, it is normal for the United States to be so anxious, when China launched and built a space station with independent intellectual property rights, the United States realized that its era of saying nothing in the space field was completely over, and it was naturally China that ended all this.
On the other hand, Russia gladly accepted this reality, and very wisely chose to establish deeper cooperation with China, the most notable of which is the future lunar base, which not only means that China and Russia will join hands to enter the deep water area of human outer space exploration, but also means that China and Russia will occupy the right to speak in the frontier field of space exploration, this strategic cooperation will bring unimaginable and rich returns to China and Russia, and the basis of all this comes from a high degree of mutual trust with China and Russia. The willingness to carry out comprehensive cooperation on the premise of equality and mutual benefit further explains what "cooperation is better than confrontation".
As for the "space race" that the United States is talking about, it is up to them to play, and today the United States is deliberately trying to trick China into trying to replicate the Star Wars of that year and let China emulate the Soviet Union and invest too many resources in the field of space. It is a pity that the same trick cannot work in China, China's "small steps and fast running" has its own operating law, and the rapid progress does not mean that it is necessary to engage in a space race, since the United States is so keen on competing for a false name, it can devote all its strength to recreating the glorious achievements of the past, but how much price needs to be paid behind this glory, I am afraid that only the United States itself knows in its heart.