pluiepoco

Russia and the US are certianly the top two space powers.

China comes behind, She needs more development in space tech.

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DigitaL MasteR

@pluiepoco: she?!!!!!
well, the fact that china sent men to the moon, means that humen did land on the moon after all

@ The_FD
I know it's not a planet, I just meant that it is less important than the planets of the solar system, anyways, the other planets my have solutions for humen population problems, I think the moon isn't very suitable for that!, but Mars for example could be of a great help, pointing to the fact that it may has prototype life forms already on it.

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wwf

we can't live on any other planet out there except for moon and mars, well if there is wather I can imagine peopl live there in 100 years or so. but there is no proof at all that the americans or the chinese people were on the moon, if I could fly to the moon and see the footprints then I'd believe that they were there

Jan

“...if I could fly to the moon and see the footprints then I'd believe that they were there”

Sadly this is often the way we think today because we cannot just believe in things that are told us. Most information we get we have to check before we can believe in them.

drew_13

"wwf -
well I don't think that Nasa landed on the moon, but we can't really tell. and if they were on the moon, why does it take so much time till another crew is sent up there??"

I'm pretty sure the media never stated that China landed people on the moon. They've just sent people into orbit so far. And as for the US landing on the moon in 1969, I've heard that with a decent strength publicly available telescope you can actually make out the original lunar landing site complete with the lunar lander. Also, the US actually made numerous manned landings on the moon after the first landing in 1969. The US made a total of 6 successful missions to the moon in which a total of 12 astronauts touched down. So they really did keep going back to the moon for awhile but what point is there in sending people to the moon every couple of years for 35 years? It would just be a drain on NASA's budget, particularly taking funds away from the more significant development of the space shuttle. Besides, public interest in lunar landing dropped significantly after the first successful mission. There is only now renewed interest in going back to the moon in order to train astronauts for a future mission to Mars and to test new space travel/landing/life support technologies also with a mission to Mars in mind. Also, not to offend any Russians, but Russia hasn't been a significant space power for quite awhile. I mean they are one of only a handleful of countries to posses a space program but at the moment the two top powers are NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency). Also, with the ESA's latest plans, they're likely to take over dominance from the US considering NASA's current financial situation. Anybody interested should take a look at the ESA's "Aurora exploration program". It's a bit more organized and ambitious than any of NASA's current plans. Of course anything could happen in the next decade but the ESA is definately in the best position at the moment.

pluiepoco

No Russian Space stands the first up to now.

NASA or ESA has to catch up its tech for decades hereafter.

What retains Russian space development is its dissolution in 1990s, and of its present backawards economy, you know, but as for its space tech, I could only say : it's superb!

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drew_13

Well I won't disagree that Russia has good technological capability but I just ment it hasn't been as actively involved recently on an international level as NASA and the ESA. And although I personally don't have the data to compare Russia's space technology to the American and European technology, I honestly can't see how Russia could be decades ahead. I mean the technology that the ESA is currently researching are things like new propulsion systems which are previously unequaled. Maybe they don't have the best technology right now but they're definately looking into things which are on the leading edge.