The race to conquer the moon is getting more and more tense, Bill Nelson, the NASA administrator, has made some statements that have made this race to reach the moon tense, where he suggested that China could claim certain lunar territories and also confirmed China had made tremendous strides in space research and development in recent years.
And he finished off the declaration with the presentation of the Artemis 3 program, published the map of the artemis 3 mission, the artemis 3 mission is the mission that will take Humans to the surface of the moon and in principle it is scheduled for 2025, according to Bill Nelson if God wants textual words.
Bill Nelson has already stated that perhaps 2026 and this is because not only can delays accumulate in the Artemis program, but also that solar maximum occurs in 2025 and that is when there will be more solar storms, which is also the moment where it is more risky or dangerous to travel through space.
The Chinese have been angry, and the Chinese Foreign Ministry strongly rejected what Bill Nelson said, also saying verbatim "it is not the first time that the head of NASA in the United States ignores the facts and speaks irresponsibly about China "The US side has consistently built a smear campaign against China's normal and reasonable efforts in outer space, and China strongly opposes these irresponsible comments as the head of NASA should be well acquainted with the dark history of the US space program." which Lil yang declared.
The question of all this is whether China, the United States, a company or a person can claim to be the owner of a piece of the moon, other natural satellites, planets or asteroids, well legally not, not according to the treaty and principles of the United Nations of 1967 on outer space, according to that treaty the moon and other celestial bodies may not be the object of national appropriation by claiming sovereignty, that is, they will not be able to say who it is, because I put my flag and this lunar or Martian territory is mine, it cannot to be.
This does not mean that the mining resources of the moon cannot be investigated or exploited. In fact, the ultraterrestrial treaty is quite open in this concept and is focused on collaboration between nations in order to scientifically develop both research and economic development in if there were any interesting natural resources for humanity.
The point is that this treaty that prevents this type of territorial appropriation has also been affirmed by China, not only what has been affirmed by the United States,
and also most of the nations of the world have signed that treaty.
In the end, rule by force will prevail as it has been on the planet, treaties are broken all the time.
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