Moon Race Restarts - this time it's China vs USA

With the Moon featuring on a growing number of political agendas, it is likely that ideas that seemed impossible a generation ago are going to become a reality - such as making the Moon habitable for humans. - BBC

NVDL: All this is slated for 2020. The next 10 years will be an exciting time. However I have my doubts, given the background of a crumbling global economy, that there will be enough funding for this in ten years.

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Forty years ago, the largest TV audience in history tuned in to watch the Apollo 8 crew reach lunar orbit. It was during this mission that the famous "Earthrise" image was captured, changing forever our perception of the planet and its place in space. And in July 1969, a small step by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission guaranteed his place in human history as the first person to set foot on another world. These pioneering missions captivated everyone's attention and seemed to herald a brave new world. Yet after just six lunar landings, the Apollo programme was scrapped because the world had quickly lost interest. The Moon is a place where you can study how to expand life beyond Earth Professor Bernard Foing European Space Agency During the 2004 speech in which he announced the US plan to return to the Moon, President George W Bush said the programme would act as a stepping stone to even more ambitious projects. China astronaut's space walk