"President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.’s civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the prospect of a new space race with China," writes Demian McLean for Bloomberg News.China is planning to have its own space station in the next few years as follow-on to its new three member crew and spacewalking capability. A Chinese spacecraft went into lunar orbit in late in 2007 marking the first of several lunar missions being planned including perhaps a human mission by 2020 by the world's most populated nation.
Meanwhile, an ad hoc space policy group at MIT has urged President-elect Obama to seek greater space cooperation with China.
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