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China Shares Rare Moon Rocks With US
Saturday April 26, 2025. 09:00 AM , from Slashdot
![]() Chinese researchers have not been able to access NASA's Moon samples because of restrictions imposed by U.S. lawmakers on the space agency's collaboration with China. Under the 2011 law, Nasa is banned from collaboration with China or any Chinese-owned companies unless it is specifically authorized by Congress. But John Logsdon, the former director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, told BBC Newshour that the latest exchange of Moon rocks have 'very little to do with politics.' While there are controls on space technology, the examination of lunar samples had 'nothing of military significance,' he said. 'It's international cooperation in science which is the norm.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/04/25/224229/china-shares-rare-moon-rocks-with-us?utm_source=r...
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