Following Japan's launch of its lunar orbiter about a month ago, China launched its first lunar orbiter Wednesday in the midst of a 3-way space race to the moon between China, Japan, and India (which will launch next year). All three plan to send orbiters and eventually manned flights to the surface. Although China downplayed the rivalry with Japan, the timescales for each country's trip to the moon are similar. Hopefully the attention paid to technology in this endeavor will make for a better moon base when we make one, instead of rivalry.
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