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Published on: 20. February 2023

Space race

230210 -- BEIJING, Feb. 10, 2023 -- This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Feb. 9, 2023 shows Shenzhou-15 taikonaut Fei Junlong conducting extravehicular activities EVAs out of the space station lab module Wentian. The Shenzhou-15 taikonauts on board the orbiting Chinese Tiangong space station completed their first spacewalk at 12:16 a.m. Beijing Time on Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency. EyesonSciCHINA-SHENZHOU-15-TAIKONAUTS-EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITIES-COMPLETION CN LiuxFang PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN

China and the USA are engaged in a race for supremacy in space. The moon could become contested territory. The USA fears that the People's Republic could lay claim to it, as it did in the South China Sea.

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Frank Sieren

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