U.S. risks losing space dominance to China without NASA support, experts say

China could reshape the global order if the U.S. relinquishes its leadership in space to Beijing, lawmakers and former officials said during a congressional panel on Wednesday. 

Bipartisan members of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee agreed that funding and supporting NASA’s operations directly affects America’s diplomatic and domestic priorities, and they warned that the U.S. is at risk of being outcompeted. 

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, the panel’s chairman, called space “a strategic frontier with direct consequences for national security, economic growth and technological leadership.”

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