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THE END OF THE SPACE RACE: ?There is almost no doubt that the Chinese will be on the moon within a ?

By Glenn Reynolds

THE END OF THE SPACE RACE: “There is almost no doubt that the Chinese will be on the moon within a decade, while we will still be earthbound and potentially bankrupt as a nation with our economy, our technology, and our industrial might in ruins because of uncontrolled government spending, borrowing, and taxing. I had an exciting childhood living in the midst of the space race, but it saddens me to think that time, 40 years ago, may end up being the historical high point of our going out into space, the final frontier.”

It doesn’t have to be that way, unless we let it be that way.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 23, 2009 (boomark / email).