Why the next man on the moon wil be Chinese - The Guardian
"The attitude to the space programme in China is a little bit like the attitude towards space exploration in the western world in the 1960s," says Kevin Fong, an expert in space medicine at University College London. "There's a deep fervour among their university kids for space technology. The main difference between China and America now is that China can just do something - they don't need to ask permission or go through a democratic process and get the budget approved."
This means that China can progress its space programme quickly; if it wants to land on the moon - and many observers think it does - the country could do it well ahead of 2020, the earliest possible date for an American return.
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