China on Monday rejected as an irresponsible smear a warning from the chief of NASA that China might 'take over' the moon as part of a military programme, saying it has always called for the building of a community of nations in outer space.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson speaks prior to the launch of an Atlas V rocket carrying Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule to the International Space Station in a do-over test flight at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. July 29, 2021.
"We must be very concerned that China is landing on the moon and saying: 'It's ours now and you stay out'," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told German newspaper Bild in an interview published on Saturday.The U.S. space agency chief said China's space programme was a military one and that China had stolen ideas and technology from others.
"The U.S. side has constantly constructed a smear campaign against China's normal and reasonable outer space endeavours, and China firmly opposes such irresponsible remarks."
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