Some Chinese bloggers are questioning whether a lunar photo taken by a Chinese satellite is real. The doubters claim that the photo was copied from an old NASA shot. The Chinese government has been quick to rebut the claims, pointing out moon craters that appear only in the Chinese photo and arguing they [...]

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Reading a Wired article about China, Japan, and other countries racing to put humankind back on the moon, one would think that such efforts were only about the rights to claim some lunar resources and national pride. But the cold war, which provided the backdrop for the U.S. / Russian space race of the [...]

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