China is 'looking really good right now' in terms of robotic lunar exploration, professor says

Greg Autry, professor and director of space leadership at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, discusses the Chinese lunar probe's return to Earth and how the country is faring against the United States in the space race. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: cnb.cx/42d859g
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[@limcheating1]

China is the only country that achieve every single goal they set 20 years ago

[@chuageokseng2168]

The story of travelling to the moon started from science fiction fairy tales to dream comes true. Chang'e is godly angel chasing her dream to the moon for the sake of mankind.

[@pauladesina6403]

What are talking about usa did not start as a rich country it started with British colonizers,usa is the fastest country to become a super power ,china has more than 100 years history and where know to be smart be ,usa was a normal poor country before Britain came they did not have a billion population,they did not have crazy invention but short up the ranks in years after their democracy.if you want to rank which development was better china or USA ,I believe it is the us.

[@KittyKittyCat-vf8zd]

@@pauladesina6403 Total BS. It took US 169 years to become a superpower. China has gone from rags to riches in a short 25 years. In another five years, China will take the top spot. There is simply no comparison.

[@KittyKittyCat-vf8zd]

@@pauladesina6403 According to the China's 75 years economic plan started back in 1975, China per capita income will meet or surpass US per capita income by 2050. With 4 times the population, that will 4 times the US GDP.

[@pauladesina6403]

@@KittyKittyCat-vf8zd easier to say than to do ,it is easier to predict that what will later be the outcome

[@yuliu8875]

Chinese space program is way overcapacity!

[@verypleasantguy]

The USA should *_SANCTION_* the moon for aiding the CCP in the mission !!!

[@lengthao8424]

Ha.......!!!!!!!! Very very sad the US can't do shift about it.......!!!!!!!!!!

[@tkh2944]

National Insecurities is gonna burst outta a certain country ?!😜 Wonder what tariffs or sanctions they're gonna impose on the moon & space ... 😅

[@LanNguyen-vd4zt]

China man is over capacity

[@user-nr2uw5mb5z]

Meanwhile the moon is ready to be sanctioned!😅

[@patsokssokari5974]

I detect a bit of sour grapes

[@svcupc]

a ton of

[@yx-l2853]

Very sour, indeed

[@strongchallenger2269]

Already become vinegar

[@gliu1431]

Sour grapes overcapacity in US and some western countries.

[@yangying7758]

We are slowly but reluctantly accepting that China is technically advanced than US. The reason that China is able to catch us is that they never pretended that they are ahead.

[@tkh2944]

Another important factor - they spend money on tech & scientific developments instead of conflicts & destruction.😊

[@quantly]

Not exactly. Every American can shout: "We are number one." We have heard a lot.

[@KittyKittyCat-vf8zd]

@@quantly We Americans are all Tanya Harding. We take the legs out from underneath the number one. Beware.

[@doctornick99]

...and they don't spend trillions of $ in overseas wars directly or indirectly.

[@johnnytran800]

America got so high it lost track of time.

[@Kukura001]

China's success proves that there are many paths to an advanced future without accepting a single "manifest destiny" value and dominance.

[@user-od9dl9vg5z]

🎉

[@rudyalfonsus686]

NASA fiscal budget is 27,2 Billion dollar. CNSA fiscal budget is 8 billion dollar. result : NASA has to pay BOEING to make a module for astronouts that now stuck on ISS. CNSA run its own space station, and bring back moon's soil from farside of the moon.

[@Johntor8888]

But west media and west commentator always said China budget for space is not transparent. Why do you need budget for space?? If you do not happy, just put your budget 100 Billion. after that west media happy???

[@laojizhou20]

Yes, people can be easily misled by more abstract concepts, such as private vs. state owned in this case, but forget those fundamentals. Here, eventual cost to tax payers is one of the fundamentals.

[@FrankRaofighton]

US: Sanction China for cheap labor

[@douginorlando6260]

NASA … Need Another SeventyBillion Assets

[@peterchin6759]

The host appears to be smart, or at least attempts to masquerade as a smart person. But unfortunately his last question gave him away. What's wrong if the mission was heavily subsidised by the governement if the information obtained can benefit mankind? Please get your head straight.

[@directxxxx71]

He must be Gordon Chang's cousin since they look pretty similar in both appearance and anti-China stand😂😂😂😂😂

[@fannyalbi9040]

​@@directxxxx71wow, indeed, long lost brother perhaps?

[@artcorner1298]

I feel the same way: cockiness.

[@kimchiba4570]

I have never regarded such anglicised Asians of Chinese descent which diss on their forebears land of origin... This is a sell out to and glad he aged so much

[@hsingkao2024]

What if China subsidize and share all the technological details with the US and EU? Will they be able to accomplish the same missions?

[@Qiushishuo]

SpaceX is funded by NASA as well. So?

[@taykforeal]

🤡

[@internationaldaily9820]

对的 😄😃😀

[@junizhao]

You do as I say not as I do.

[@howaterbrd9563]

The Europeans "should get wise to"? The casual racism is breathtaking.

[@user10u7]

ikr

[@michaeljiang960]

CNBC didn't ask "at what cost" at the end? I am amazed.

[@dahaixing2376]

well, the USA has spent more money on moon landing projects (outsourced to private companies with contract payment) and failed twice this year. So it will be slapping their own face to ask this question...

[@shawnliu11]

China subsidies space development, US subsidies military development. They are all doing what they are good at. That’s the simple pure difference.

[@wildfire8126]

US government has been controlling by Military Industrial Complex after World War Two according to former US President, Dwight Eisenhower. In other words, US government has been subsidizing everything and anything in terms of national interests.

[@user-yw3bp9uu1o]

In terms of the moon landing, the United States was indeed the first country to land a spacecraft on the moon. We should thank Hollywood for manned moon landing.

[@anwarhosain2498]

Congratulations China .You have done a great job for the mankind . Your national policy is laudable because it is always towards a direction of achieving prosperity ,peace and economic development for all the nations by helping them financial assistance, technology etc without domestic interference to the others. You are utilising all the available resources for infrastructure construction and upliftment of humane race.

[@thomasrogers9146]

EVERYTHING IS ENERGY. YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW. CHINA WILL LEAD THIS CENTURY BECAUSE OF THEIR NON VIOLENCE,PEACE TRADE AND WIN WIN MENTALLY. WE AMERICANS ARE OBSESSED WITH DOMINATION, WARS VIOLENCE AND WIN LOSE ZERO SUM MENTALLY. WE ARE DO NEGATIVE THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY IS MOVING AWAY FROM US. EVEN OUR VASSALS ARE GETTING TIRED OF OUR NEGATIVITY.

[@user-od9dl9vg5z]

🎉❤

[@siewkonsum7291]

The Chinese are far ahead in the Space & Lunar programs with excellent organisations to organise, manage & expedite their Lunar expeditions impressively, perfectly & successfully as proven by their latest Lunar achievement. 👏

[@eugenec7130]

Only through mutual trust and cooperation will humankind succeed in space exploration. Congratulations to China and European countries! Shall we leave the United States alone?

[@jajahaha365]

ESA has called off the European-Chinese cooperation in lunar exploration

[@eugenec7130]

@@jajahaha365 Under pressure from the Big Brother?

[@ericliume]

@@eugenec7130 No need to add the question mark at the end. But it doesn't stop European countries to cooperate with China by themselves. France joined Chang'e-6 mission by himself.

[@artcorner1298]

Sadly that seems to be the case.

[@rtech888]

the US isolated itself when it excluded china from the ISS

[@chuckgoodwish3897]

Chines space program is state owned. There is no such question as “heavily subsidized “ by the state! What a weird and arrogant attitude coming out of the mouth of a news anchor !

[@wildfire8126]

US space program is state owned (NASA is funded by the Congress). However; NASA has been outsourcing projects to SpaceX, Boeing and other companies within the Military Industrial Complex.

[@DragonYang01]

@@wildfire8126 If all these outsourced companies are making money, outsourcing is an another form of subsidy. In fact, NASA shares tremendous information with SpaceX and others. The reason for NASA to fund private industries is because NASA is notoriously known for poor planning, cost overrun, repeated delay.

[@zhengling2668]

​@@wildfire8126it's more popular to outsource to India.

[@Kai-ic4mp]

First comment! Woohoo! Anyways congrats to China! 🇨🇳

[@skoll7526]

China has increased its spending on science and technology by 10% compared to last year.China produces more STEM graduates than any other country.Even if a small percentage of these graduates are very smart it means China has a big pool of scientists and engineers.No wonder China is becoming successful in many technologies.

[@zherenjiang]

作为一个中国理工科毕业生，我想说你说出了这件些事的本质

[@xinyiquan666]

US never went to moon

[@verypleasantguy]

Oh sure, they did ! They went to the *MOON* movie set in Arizona

[@Cbr978]

Why is it so hard to believe?

[@KittyKittyCat-vf8zd]

@@Cbr978 US sent men to the Moon and back in record travel time defying physics. Unless US got alien's technology. It was simply impossible. Why is it so hard to believe?

[@lbchen6160]

@@Cbr978because you didn’t find what China had found in the moon samples chang’e 5 brought. Which is natural graphene

[@Cbr978]

@@lbchen6160mmmmhmmm

[@paultsjan6047]

China is moving ahead and making great progress with its space program to explore outer space. China decided to build its own space station to conduct scientific experiment as the US refuse to allows China to participate in space exploration and the US even passed law like the Wolf Amendment in 2011 to banned China from engaging in direct, bilateral cooperation regarding space exploration and scientific experiments. China's space program is to explore the vast cosmos and develop the space industry for scientific experiment and new discovery. China's spending on space is only $US12 billion as compare to $US62 billion spending by the US in 2022. China still has "some way to go" before catching up with the US in space. It has been unfortunate however after the US’s Congressional act adopted in 2011, the US space institutions have been blocked from cooperating with China, which is the Wolf Act. Now, the US make an about-face by accusing and criticised China of being "intolerant of any examination of their space program." Bill Nelson accused China of being inflexible and not very transparent. The US sanctions on Russia destroy cooperation on the International Space Station. With Joe Biden announced new sanctions that will degrade Russia’s aerospace industry, including their space program. On the basis of equality, mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, China has signed agreement with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) have agreed to work together to develop the space capabilities of United Nations Member States on China's future space station. Under the agreements, UNOOSA and CMSA will work together to enable United Nations Member States, particularly developing countries to conduct space experiments on-board China's space station, as well as to provide flight opportunities for astronauts and payload engineers. Both parties will also promote international cooperation in human space flight and other space activities, increased awareness of the benefits of human space technology and its applications, and capacity-building activities in space technology. CMSA will provide funding support to UNOOSA in this regard. This opportunity to further build the space capacity of developing countries and increase understanding of the benefits space can bring to humankind, including for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals with these initiatives. In accordance with the Outer Space Treaty, outer space resources are the common asset of humanity and China will act upon the relevant treaties. China space program and research is fully open to international researchers, and guides for the open solicitation of research proposals will be regularly issued under bilateral cooperation agreements. China plans to launch a new type of propulsion spacecraft, reaching the boundary of the solar system at 80-100 astronomical units (AU), conducting scientific exploration in the distant, dark, and cold unknown regions, aiming to establish new milestones in humanity's understanding of the universe.

[@ahooapplepen6949]

keep mentioning things 50 years ago is just sad… I’m sure you got to make lve 50 years ago…and now？

[@verypleasantguy]

Something that USA said it did 50 years ago means USA is no longer capable of doing it

[@david50665]

many civilizations cannot repeat what they did at their peak...egypt, greece and rome are good examples...progress is not always in a straigt line

[@mbs1806]

What is the point you can landed a rover in Mars but not able to collect and send the sample back to earth

[@davidbosak7503]

Yeah, I was thinking that also. I can't believe they picked up those samples and had NO PLAN to bring them back!

[@tanchong307]

They land the mar rover im hollywood nobody prove it scsm

[@strongchallenger2269]

US don't have the capability and technology to do so. If you understand Chinese, you will get a lot more information from the website on how the Chinese are able to go to the moon and bring back samples. It's unbelievable that how they have planned over 10 years ago. The amount of paperwork and engineers involved is like 50 and the paperwork is stacked for over 1 storey high!

[@artcorner1298]

China also has private sectors involved in scientific exploration. They can launch satellites too. This is capital intensive and state-led enterprises can suffer losses better than profit-seeking private organizations to achieve results that end up benefiting human races.

[@MukeshVerma-bg3on]

Apparently, the guy doesn’t know about the Unimantic platform, where you can passively earn money on cryptocurrency.

[@Hystericall]

If samples has never been retrieved from the Far Side before, how the hell can this guy say "oh i dont expect much scientific value" Seems to me scientists worldwide are indeed very excited to study these samples.

[@cs-lw2pn]

This guy is deluding himself. There is no way a country of 1.4 billion people with unmatchable economies of scale and a centralized government with established long term goals on space exploration and research will not outcompete a small private company no matter how much funding there are receiving from the federal government. Highly skilled talent is found very easily in China thanks to it's massive population. This is a much harder task to do now in the west. There needs to be a collective plan among G7 nations if they want to compete in the long run.

[@motomotomao8216]

世界的历史这么长，优秀的民族这么多，强大的国家来了又走了，美国人别着急，过了五百年六百年历史会正确评价你的。

[@Herodotus__]

Years ago, the US denied China to be part of the "International" space program.😂 The US will sanction the moon😂

[@junizhao]

What’s stunning is that china has a zero failure record!

[@wildfire8126]

US space program is state owned (NASA is funded by the Congress). However; NASA has been outsourcing projects to SpaceX, Boeing and other companies within the Military Industrial Complex.

[@edwingan1988]

America is still the undisputed leader in space, Sunita and Butch should have no worries.

[@sasa-tg4od]

領導者先把宇航員接回來

[@edwingan1988]

冷话

[@nostradamus2642]

The US space program has not been going smoothly since Stanley Kubrik kicked the bucket 😂

[@windsong3wong828]

USA must avoid having a Cold War with China. USA and China can work together to benefit the world. If USA have a Cold War attitude…..too much monies and resources will be wasted. USA already have millions homeless and the government should use the budget to provide more social programs.

[@baile-hairdryer]

chang e is a beautiful princess , far side has diamond crystal and treasure😁

[@WalkOverHotCoal]

China shouldn't gloat about the outstanding achievement, and neither should the US gloat about it being the first landed on the moon. While it is outstanding that US being the first arrived at the moon, what you did after that, 50 years later, is equally important. I think it is a typical "the hare and the turtle" yarn, that the hare looked back and the turtle is a long way behind, so the hare found a large shady tress, and leaned against it, then fell asleep. But the modern day "the hare and the turtle" story goes like this...The hare finds itself lacking, and started accusing the turtle of "overcapacity and heavily subsidized" !

[@gliu1431]

This is good for human mankind. Don’t be sour grapes overcapacity.

[@normanchan2001]

You what really impresses me, is the Chinese safety record. What's unique about their space program is that you don't see any spectacular failures that are common in western space programs.

[@centralkingdom8141]

The New generation Chinese are too intelligence.

[@zhengling2668]

God lost hope of US, select China instead.

[@douginorlando6260]

China is world leader in drones and robotics. Not a surprise China successfully leverage their technology into space

[@augustzhao1689]

Wait! China's space model is bad, the US model is better?! But they just beat you, did they not?

[@liamporter1137]

This is China century.

[@heartlandca]

"European getting wise" to work with more advanced Chinese lunar research. No matter how you you look at it, I feel a bit bizarre coming from an expert in scientific field. Are they all thick skin politicians? :)

[@Hystericall]

guy is clearly a racist and xenophobe.

[@AZ-co4mn]

Congratulations to China❤absolutely amazing and the best 🎉

[@poconosgiant3255]

Amazing

[@NekoLilium2012]

You know, there is natural Graphene just lying on lunar.

[@ejdkdjdkd3893]

USA need to put more investment in Hollywood

[@geodive5542]

See, it’s already started…

[@kelelala]

Hello Gavin Malkovich XD

[@jibolabalogun6369]

China is the best country in the world ❤❤❤❤❤

[@oka2046]

China's technology is just so...how should I put it...overcapacity!!

[@SawyerMcgill]

The anchor looks Japan?

[@notgonnalie-oy1f]

$9.99 moon rocks coming to Temu soon.

[@HEBREWHAMMER-vk9df]

The space race who will stake there claim and colonize the Moon

[@nicogun7177]

why so bitter?

[@RajivkumarKumar-ts3hu]

Are you still just holding coins? Guys, what are you doing? Unimantic has been around for almost a year!

[@rockrolling]

NASA...get down to your knees. Trump said so.

[@internationaldaily9820]

Lies, all lies... 🤡🤡🤡

[@user-uj1fy5ke1m]

😂😂😂😂Ok………

[@slusheesAndfritos]

😂😂😂

[@yeejlilys9742]

We need to ask China where you steal the technologies of landing on the far side of the moon and bringing the samples back to Earth.

[@johan-lh9ej]

Mencuri dari rumahmu idiot

[@dsun1263]

From Russia!

[@yeejlilys9742]

@@dsun1263 which Russia? Is the one in your dream.

[@wildfire8126]

There is no order of learning, and the one who has achieved success is the teacher. On March 12, 2024, the World Intellectual Property Organization recently released the global intellectual property application statistics for 2023. The data showed that in 2023, the total number of PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) international patent applications worldwide was 272,600, a year-on-year decrease of 1.8%. China's application volume was 69,610, and it was still the country of origin with the largest number of applications. The United States ranked second in the world with 55,678 applications, followed by Japan, South Korea and Germany. In terms of applicants, China's Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ranked first in the world with 6,494 PCT international patent applications, South Korea's Samsung Electronics ranked second, followed by Qualcomm, Japan's Mitsubishi Electric and China's BOE Technology. Among the top 10 applicants, China's CATL grew the fastest, with an increase of 1,533 applications published in 2023, and its ranking rose by 84 places to eighth. Among the published PCT international patent applications, computer technology accounts for the largest proportion, 10.2%, followed by digital communications, electrical machinery, medical technology and pharmaceuticals. The number of applications in these five fields accounts for about 2/5 of the total number of published PCT applications in 2023.

[@wynn_beijing]

看到你们调侃自己的国家和政府，你们很自信也很强大，在中国没有这样的声音，如果调侃会被身边的人骂惨😢

[@ArthurJason-Constantine]

Biden: The soil is not democratic Trump: We need to tariff the soil Zuckerberg: The soil is mine NASA: They steal the soil from us. Cuz the moon belongs to U.S.A Nvidia and Microsoft: We need this soil subject powered by AI on my stock prices.

[@ll-io4bd]

nasa is supported by goverment too😂

[@user-lq3nx2hz1o]

How did Apollo land on the moon and talk to the president on the phone? And it was live. Imagine that at that time, there was no Internet, no semiconductor, no 5G, and it only took eight days to go back and forth.😅😅😅😂😂😂

[@Hystericall]

It's possible. US's radio telescope tracking network was and is very advanced. The light speed delay is only half a second from the moon to the earth. The capsule's radios more than capable of talking directly to Mission Control in Houston, just need a relay from Houston to white house on domestic telephone lines.

[@TomDondero-gn8dq]

The comments section is not real people don't believe this stuff anymore shut up greg

[@TomDondero-gn8dq]

Greg you should be ashamed of yourself for deceiving people

[@yayeltv]

Propaganda.

[@leeliu6867]

Lol yeah nada NASA is propaganda

[@bearpolo3618]

Propaganda? Is that all you can come up with? Regardless, China got the lunar soil back while 2 US astronauts who were supposed to be back now are still in space. At the minimum, bring them back to earth first.

[@suckmemore]

Cr ymor e. Lo ser! Ha..............