Bill Nelson, head of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), said that the US joined the race for supremacy in space with China. It gives information about TASS.
“We are in a space race with China,” he said at a hearing in the US House Appropriations Committee.
According to Nelson, over the past decade China has developed a “successful space program” and now a number of Chinese spacecraft are very similar to those launched by the United States and Europe.
At the same time, the head of NASA emphasized that the budget of the US Space Administration will allow it to surpass competitors from China and maintain technological superiority in lunar exploration.
In January, Nelson said that NASA and the Pentagon are committed by 2027. create and launching a nuclear thermal engine into space. He said the NASA-DARPA joint program budget is $110 million in 2023 and is expected to increase by hundreds of millions of dollars through 2027.