#NASA Administrator Bill Nelson claims that the United States is currently in a space race with China, that could see Beijing attempt to make a territorial claim on parts of the moon, including the ‘undiscovered' Dark Side of the Moon.

Both #China and the #UnitedStates have lofty goals for lunar exploration and colonization. Both the #US and China have major lunar ambitions, with NASA working on its #Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon, while China aims to send its own crews to the moon before the end of the decade and build a lunar base in the 2030s.

To this point the country has given no indication that it plans to hoard resources if it gets to the Dark Side of the Moon first, or that the Chinese space station has any other purpose but to preforme traditional scientific research similar, to NASA's International Space Station.

In response to these claims, China rebutted that it plans to "steal the Moon."

Both #US and China are currently contemplating where and when to perform a landing, some of which may be in the same areas near the lunar south pole.

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