China has a growing space program but does not seem in a hurry to put astronauts on the moon, so there's no indication that a space race is heating up.
To pay for the growing space station program, Congress cut the AXAF budget and proponents feared delays in launching the craft before the end of the decade.
"For sure, more [scientific missions] are to come," says Azzarello, who adds that he is looking forward to future opportunities to collaborate with China's growing space science program.
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The university was founded by the Florida Legislature in 1963, and opened in 1968 as Florida Technological University, with the mission of providing personnel to support the growing U.S. space program at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Florida's Space Coast.
Analysis shows problems of cost estimating result from the growing complexity of space programs, failures in managing growth, and mission failures.
With the advent of standardised launch geometries and off-the-shelf payloads, space programs utilising nano-satellite platforms are growing worldwide.
True, big federal programs like the Interstate System of highways, the development of the Internet and the creation of the semiconductor chip (which grew out of the space program) have gone out of fashion.
Following President John F. Kennedy's September 1962 speech in which he described his goal of sending a manned space flight to the moon by the end of the decade, the space program grew in importance and scope across Central Florida because of its close proximity to Cape Canaveral and defense contractors.
The space official said that China's human flight program, which has been managed by the military, "is quite expensive" but that its growing (and classified) budget "has not come at the cost of civilian space programs".
