Space Shuttle Endeavour launches for the last time

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Maybe we need a good space opponent to get interest back in to it. Perhaps the Chinese would be a challenging opponent???

Hard to say All recent reports of planned Chinese manned moon missions are really based on mistranslations, misunderstandings, and wishful thinking. Recent presentations by Chinese space officials make clear that they won't even begin to study a moon mission until after they've successfully built a space station, which is at least a decade away. The current pace of the Chinese program doesn't really point to a concerted effort to put a man on the moon anytime soon. And since we've already been there I'm not sure it'd get us that excited anyway.