Astronaut Scott Kelly: 'I think that China will overtake the US in the space business — if we allow them to'
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- Scott Kelly, a former NASA astronaut who lived in space for nearly a year, visited the offices of Business Insider.
- Commercial companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, and others are hoping to establish a permanent presence in space with NASA's help.
- However, Kelly said "China will overtake the US in the space business — if we allow them to."
- Kelly would like to see the ISS last longer and new space stations established at the moon or "other interesting points throughout our solar system."
There's a lot going for NASA right now. It's preparing to test-launch new SpaceX and Boeing spacecraft funded by the agency, and it's working hard to get astronauts to Mars in the 2030s.
But the space agency faces an all-time-low budget requested by the Trump administration, plus years of flat budgets and political back-and-forth — all of which have contributed extensive program delays.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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