• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I didn’t know the U.S. banned collaboration with China in 2011. I hate that we don’t do more of this. Collaboration on science missions is a good thing for everyone.

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      4 months ago

      I would also like to see more collaboration, and there are many nuanced reasons why the US would rather not. Just one of them is that this launch resulted in this:

      https://x.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1804542638034661522

      I can’t imagine being one of the scientists designing and cheering on this mission and then realizing my country’s funds caused that scene. Thank goodness the US doesn’t drop empty stages (containing extremely dangerous chemicals in this case) on populated areas, this kind of behavior cannot be tolerated.