Yes congratulations, especially if they again invite western scientists to become investigators on samples! I admire them, especially as part of NASA Hughes Raytheon contract there were a dozen Chinese space engineers whom I (as a team member from Goddard contract) trained on Earth sciences and remote sensing data acquisition just before year 2000..
Years later congress stopped all collaboration, too late for these very smart people who not only have us dependent on their goods but also have been trying to excel in space sciences, particle physics and space capabilities.
If we do not support dynamic enterprises such as SpaceX for example, it may be a scenario where they excel in some areas and we have to catch-up! Of course not yet so for Human space missions.
Ravi
(Dr. Ravi Sharma, Ph.D. USA)
NASA Apollo Achievement Award
ISRO Distinguished Service Awards
Former MTS NASA HQ MSEB Apollo
Former Scientific Secretary ISRO HQ
Ontolog Board of Trustees
Particle and Space Physics
Senior Enterprise Architect
SAE Fuel Cell Tech Committee voting member for 20 years.
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