China may soon own the moon, US warned

October 20, 2011 14:21

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Commercial space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow is worried that the US may lose the new game of "solar system monopoly" and that China might soon be the owner of the moon.
The entrepreneur said the ownership of the moon, is up for grabs, and China is likely to snag it. Bigelow, the owner of aerospace company Bigelow Aerospace
in Las Vegas, said at the 2011 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight that by the time America gets into gear to build its own moon base, large swaths of lunar territory may already be claimed.

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