China Could Beat Artemis to the Moon, Here’s Why That Might Not Be a Bad Thing

In the first episode of season one of Apple TV's hit series For All Mankind, an alternate-reality America is forced to watch in abject horror as Alexei Leonov, a Soviet cosmonaut, plants a hammer and sickle flag down on the lunar surface, making it a truly "red" Moon. The Soviet Union may be long gone in our own reality, but make no mistake. Now that the second great space race is underway, a red moon could one day become something very real indeed. (continue reading...)