Its time to write about China again.
Some news:

- China sent three new astronauts to its space station Tiangong
- The crew will stay on Tiangong space station for roughly six months
- China's Shenzhou-21 spaceship launched Friday
- Tiangong space station, centerpiece of China's space program
- Beijing to send astronauts to moon by end of decade and build lunar base
My Comments:
The Chinese have done it again. They sent up three more astronauts (on rotation basis for six months) to their Tiangong space station.
The Tiangong space station orbits Earth at an altitude of approximately 340 to 450 kilometers (210 to 280 miles).
The Chinese sent up their three astronauts from launch to docking and arrival at the Tiangong Space Station in 3.5 hours!! Three and a half hours from take off in China to docking and arrival on Tiangong. The Chinese hope to make their first manned moon landing flight by end 2030 - five years from now.
My guess is they will eventually develop a shuttle system from earth to the Tiangong "bus station" then to the moon.
Unmanned rockets will first fly from earth to Tiangong or possibly directly to the moon base with fuel, supplies and equipment. Then the astronauts will fly "light" to the Tiangong "bus station" and catch a space shuttle from Tiangong to moonbase.
Tiangong can become a staging area in space. Unmanned supply rockets to Tiangong will be cheaper and much less risky to operate.
To escape the earth's gravity a space rocket must reach speeds of about 25,000 mph. It needs tons of fuel. Freed from the earth's gravity a much smaller space shuttle flying from Tiangong at about that speed can reach the moon in about 10 hours (240,000 miles).
I think all this will become a reality over the next 10 to 20 years. The Chinese are going to "develop" the moon.
Folks, CHINA has already left the whole world behind.
According to the IMF's October 2025 data, China's GDP by PPP is projected to be $41.02 trillion in 2025, making it the largest economy in the world. The US GDP by PPP is about half of that. These are estimates by the smart alecs.
Here are some other figures. These are world production tonnages of steel and cement.
Rank Country Steel Production (Metric Tons)
1 China ~1.03 billion mt
2 India ~120 million
3 Japan ~80 million
4 United States ~70 million
5 Russia ~70 million
China
produces (and consumes most of it) 1.03 billion tonnes of steel a year.
The next largest producer is India at 120 million tonnes. That is
almost NINE times smaller than China's production. The US is too far
behind at 70 million tonnes - 15 times smaller than China.
Rank Country Cement Production (Million Metric Tons)
1 China ~2.5 billion mt
2 India ~350 million
3 United States ~90 million
4 Iran ~80 million
5 Indonesia ~70 million
China produces (and consumes most of it) 2.5 billion tonnes of cement a year. The next largest producer is India at 350 million tonnes. That is SEVEN times smaller than China's production. The US is too far behind at 90 million tonnes - 28 times smaller than China.
Every two years China produces and consumes more cement than the US has produced in 100 years from 1900 to 1999 (including two world wars).
With numbers like these, the US is no more the world's super power. There is really only one superpower in the world and that is China. And they will remain a superpower for a long time.