Opinion: Why It Is Time For U.S.-China Civil Space Cooperation

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in October at Gimhae air base, a Republic of Korea Air Force base adjacent to Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea.

Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images
“Why should man’s first flight to the Moon be a matter of national competition? . . . Surely, we should explore whether the scientists and astronauts of our two countries—indeed of all the world—cannot work together in the conquest of space, sending someday in this decade to the Moon not the...

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