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There's an Extremely Stupid Reason NASA Scientists Can't Study China's Amazing New Moon Rocks (futurism.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That's because the US enacted a law called the Wolf Amendment in 2011, which prevents NASA from using government funds to cooperate directly with China

Laws are stupid apparently

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Part of the reason for not cooperating was China dropping boosters on populated areas I think.

Edit: here's a video of a hypergolic first stage crashing on/near a village a week ago. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/24/china/china-rocket-debris-falls-over-village-intl-hnk/index.html

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Has nothing to do with that. They are concerned about China getting their hands on U.S. rocket technology that they could use for defense purposes.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago

Prolly cuz they're fake like half the shit out of China