Our 'Sputnik moment' is China's space program
February 04, 2011|By Douglas MacKinnon | Guest columnist
As President Obama and much of his administration genuflected before President Hu Jintao from the People's Republic of China at the recent state dinner at the White House, all in attendance worked overtime to ensure there was no mention of China's ultimate threat to our national security.
That being the PRC's military space program.
At his State of the Union address last month, President Obama seemed like he was about to wave the red flag on that subject when he said, "Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite called Sputnik, we had no idea how we would beat them to the moon. The science wasn't there yet. NASA didn't even exist…This is our generation's Sputnik moment…"
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