{"id":86504,"date":"2025-08-23T03:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/86504\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T03:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:10:12","slug":"nasa-needs-bold-leadership-or-well-be-watching-on-tv-while-beijing-lands-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/86504\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA needs bold leadership \u2014 or we\u2019ll be watching on TV while Beijing lands on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For more than six decades, NASA has been the world\u2019s lodestar for exploration. We designed the rockets, trained the astronauts and landed on the moon when the idea was barely a decade old. But somewhere between Apollo 17\u2019s dust cloud and today\u2019s paperwork pile, we\u2019ve lost the rhythm that made \u201cWe choose to go to the moon\u201d more than just a speech.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Register now and get<br \/>3 free articles every month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You\u2019ll also receive our weekly SpaceNews This Week newsletter every Friday. Opt-out at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"#signin_modal\">Sign in to an existing account<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Get unlimited access to<br \/>SpaceNews.com now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:16px\">As low as $5 per week*<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Cancel anytime. Sales tax may apply. No refunds. (*Billed quarterly)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/subscribe\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See all subscription options<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For more than six decades, NASA has been the world\u2019s lodestar for exploration. We designed the rockets, trained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[15888,891,1586,92,6884,90,1957,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-86504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-artemis","tag-china","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-opinion","tag-science","tag-sn","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}