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The New Space Race
ResumeFast forward to 2007, and the high frontier is looking like nobody's backyard and everyone's. China, India, Japan, Europe, even oil-rich Russia — they're all talking about the moon, and more. President Bush has targeted Mars, but there's fear the US could end up in the backseat of this century's lift-off.
This hour, On Point: fifty years after Sputnik, the new race in space.Guests:
Joan Johnson-Freese, department chair of national security studies at the U.S. Naval War College, is author of "Space as a Strategic Asset."
Andrew Chaikin, science writer and author of "A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts."
Bill Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut, executive secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council under President Richard Nixon, and former CEO of General Dynamics.
This program aired on October 2, 2007.