China’s surging private space industry is out to challenge the US
Published Date: 1/21/2021
Source: technologyreview.com
China’s space program might have been slowed by the pandemic in 2020, but it certainly didn’t stop. The year’s highlights included sending a rover to Mars, bringing moon rocks back to Earth, and testing out the next-generation crewed vehicle that should take taikonauts into orbit—and possibly to the moon—one day.  But there were a few…