{"id":3198,"date":"2011-10-23T00:33:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T07:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/10\/china-purchasing-moon\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T00:39:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T07:39:46","slug":"china-purchasing-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/23\/china-purchasing-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"China Purchasing Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/article\/313103\" target=\"_blank\">from Digital Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>China could own the Moon by 2026, U.S. space entrepreneur warns<\/h1>\n<p>OCT 20, 2011\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/user\/592812\">JohnThomas Didymus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none; height: 220px; width: 220px; display: block; background-image: url('http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/img\/5\/2\/7\/6\/1\/8\/i\/8\/4\/9\/p-medium\/Full_Moon.jpeg'); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; float: right; margin-left: 15px; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?q=Las+Cruces%2C+NM%2C+United+States&amp;z=4\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; A U.S. space entrepreneur, Robert Bigelow, has sounded alarm that China could own large portions of the moon by 2026, edging out the United States in the race for ownership of the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bigelow made this warning at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispcs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">2011 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday.Robert Bigelow, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/13331-china-space-race-moon-ownership-bigelow-ispcs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Space.com<\/a>, said China&#8217;s growing technological capability, economic buoyancy, motivation and will to win the space race to &#8220;own the moon&#8221; places it at advantage to the U.S. which he said is still &#8220;basking in the lunar glory from 40 years ago.&#8221; Bigelow said that in spite of the U.S. still looking back to its glorious past as the first nation to land a man on the Moon,<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 40px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 60px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: black; line-height: 17px\"><p>&#8220;&#8230;we don\u2019t own one square foot of the damn place. NASA is a shadow of the space agency it once was in the 1960s and 1970s.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The American space entrepreneur, whose company Bigelow Aerospace, is building human colony labs and private inflatable space modules for both government and commercial ventures, said under present international laws, any nation could claim ownership of lunar territory it occupies through continuous human presence.<\/p>\n<p>[\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/article\/313103\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at DigitalJournal.com<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Digital Journal China could own the Moon by 2026, U.S. space entrepreneur warns OCT 20, 2011\u00a0by\u00a0JohnThomas Didymus Las Cruces\u00a0&#8211; A U.S. space entrepreneur, Robert Bigelow, has sounded alarm that China could own large portions of the moon by 2026, edging out the United States in the race for ownership of the Moon. 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