{"id":511687,"date":"2026-07-06T02:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/511687\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T02:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:03:11","slug":"nasa-director-warns-china-may-lead-moon-race-%c2%b7-daily-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/511687\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Director Warns China May Lead Moon Race \u00b7 Daily Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Aizkman, the director of NASA, stated that China might surpass the United States in the race to reach the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CBS, Aizkman said, &#8220;The Chinese will send their astronauts to the Moon, that is not a question. The question is: will the United States return to the Moon before them?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aizkman affirmed that the US could still outpace China, adding, &#8220;There is definitely a space race happening now, and China is advancing at an incredible speed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Carlos Garcia-Galan, head of NASA&#8217;s lunar base program, mentioned at the end of June that the United States lacks sufficient information to send a crewed mission to the Moon and begin building a base there.<\/p>\n<p>The Moon landing, originally planned for 2027 as part of the Artemis III mission, has been postponed to 2028 under the Artemis IV mission.<\/p>\n<p>NASA anticipates that by 2029 it will have reliable capabilities to reach the lunar surface and conduct experiments, followed by establishing essential infrastructure to operate a lunar base. From 2032 onward, NASA expects to maintain a permanent crew presence there.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official account, under the Apollo program, the United States landed on the Moon six times between 1969 and 1972, with 12 astronauts walking on the lunar surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jared Aizkman, the director of NASA, stated that China might surpass the United States in the race to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-511687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}