Watch a Chinese Spacecraft Launch From the Moon and Start Its Trip Back to Earth

[Sapient Donkey]

2. Yes, this is awesome for China (and the world in general) However, it's not too bad for the US...

The US spends more on space exploration than any other nation. Check out all the missions NASA and JPL have going on at this time. China spends about $8 billion and we spend about $22 billion. Even under Trump the budget has been increased every year. Although I did read about some concerns with how their suggestions for how the funds should be used by NASA. I think they wanted a larger than usual portion to go toward exploration missions or something along those lines.

https://www.nasa.gov/launchschedule/
Hovering over the missions menu item gives a list of links to the pages for them.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/?type=current


The Chinese space program is awesome and it should be interesting to see where they go next. However, the US isn't sitting around doing nothing when it comes to space. It's just people seem to ignore most of the stuff that NASA does. What do you think of the US' investment in space missions compared to China after seeing this information?