Comments on: Taking another small step on a journey of a thousand miles

By: Space Politics » Resetting US-China space cooperation

Space Politics » Resetting US-China space cooperation — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:36:40 +0000

[…] space cooperation would proceed at a slow pace after his visit to China in October. That meeting, set up after a meeting of Presidents Hu and Obama in China in 2009, was also to feature a visit to the US by “the appropriate Chinese counterpart” to […]

By: Space Politics » Why can’t the US and China cooperate in space?

Space Politics » Why can’t the US and China cooperate in space? — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:55:38 +0000

[…] effort by the US government to reach out to China and find ways to cooperate in space, including a brief mention of cooperation in space exploration last year when Presidents Obama and Hu met, as well as NASA administrator Bolden’s visit to China in […]

By: Space Politics » Caution about US-China space cooperation

Space Politics » Caution about US-China space cooperation — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:34:39 +0000

[…] President Obama visited China earlier this month, the US and China issued a joint statement that included a passage about space cooperation, including “starting a dialogue on human space flight and space exploration”. […]

By: Marcel F. Williams

Marcel F. Williams — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:13:08 +0000

Peaceful cooperation is nice but a lot more progress in space will be made from competition than cooperation. Friendly competition is a good thing, IMO.

I look forward to the day when the EU and nations like Japan, India and Brazil join the US, Russia, and China in having their own independent manned space flight capabilities.

But NASA needs to focus more on helping private industry to develop the next generation of rocket vehicles that will give the emerging private manned space flight industry easy access to orbit and to the surface of the Moon so that the rest of us can some day venture into space.

By: Doug Lassiter

Doug Lassiter — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:50:52 +0000

Ah, there it is. As I noted below in a thread from the other day, the “Joint Press Statement” (which is really two statements delivered jointly) had nothing from Obama about space. I guess he was saving those words for the “Joint Statement” which expresses consensus better. These consensus words serve reasonably well as a foundation for any reference to such collaboration with the Chinese in the upcoming replan, though “starting a dialogue” is not a particularly big brick on which to build near term activities.