50 years of the Apollo 11 mission: the world with its head in the stars
2019-07-18T09:23:07.706Z
In this third installment of our fifty-year-old series of Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon, Sylvain Rousseau and James André explain how space and the moon in particular are again a symbol of power and influence. The whole world has its head again in the stars, the big powers, like the private companies. 50 years after marking the climax of the Cold War, space and the moon are back in the Great Game. Today, every power, established or emerging, has its own space program. The United States, Russia and Europe sometimes work in partnership. India is developing a program at a lower cost. There is also Japan, South Korea, Brazil and even Israel, whose attempt at landing a rover ended in a crash last April. And then of course, there is ... China, which hit a big blow by sending a rover on the hidden side of the moon, a world first. Now, the Chinese are the main rivals of the Americans in the race for space.
Source: france24