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America launched its Apollo 18 spacecraft to the moon on the 16th.

"Jessica Watkins, Shel Grindelwald, and Robert Hines successfully landed on the moon on August 16, 2024."

"Setting off once again into another world"

Approximately 1.47 billion people watched the live broadcast of the moon landing. NASA sold the broadcasting rights to the world.

America's successful moon landing also provided the media with a lot of topics, and governments that knew the inside story were happy to shift public attention to the space program.

Landing on the moon was achievable with past technology, but building a base on Mars is not so easy.

This field requires a large number of talents, and once the Mars base is built, the subsequent shortage of aerospace talents will not be small.

It's not impossible that large cities will be built on Mars in the future.

This requires a large number of aerospace professionals, and guiding public opinion can encourage more young people to dedicate themselves to the aerospace industry.

When Gagarin went into space and Armstrong landed on the moon, they inspired many people.

This era needs new space heroes.

America chose the combination that best suited their background.

China will naturally also need to promote its own space heroes.

There were no breakthroughs, so subsequent astronauts were far less famous than the first manned spaceflight astronaut.

However, the lunar space station and subsequent manned lunar landings present excellent opportunities.

It's important to know that apart from America, no other country has ever successfully landed on the moon.

America's lunar landing program was a success, and Chinese astronauts also successfully entered the lunar space station.

This does not mean that the space program on Earth has been smooth sailing.

India's independently developed space station failed to launch.

Back in 2020, India's Minister of Space announced that they would build their own space station by 2030.

At the time, the Indian side claimed that testing of the engine, cryogenic stage, crew escape system motor, and service module propulsion system was underway.

China's launch of its Tiangong-1 space station had already drawn envy from India.

The successful launch of the lunar space station in 2024 made India realize that it could no longer wait.

To them, realizing the dream of sending astronauts into space and having a space station comparable to those of the world's major powers is a historic feat.

Especially after the success of India's manned spaceflight program Gaganyaan in early 2024, they immediately began launching their own space station.

However, the plan was not as simple as they thought, and the space station clearly failed.

India's failures are not news in China; its successes are.

Just like when India's manned spaceflight was successful at the beginning of the year, it sparked heated discussions in Chinese media.

A small number of opinion leaders within a small group of Chinese citizens have even stated on social media:

"If you can look at the past records of China and India from an objective perspective, you will have a clearer and more accurate understanding of India's space capabilities."

"From nuclear tests to anti-satellite tests, India has been catching up with China at a very fast pace."

"China conducted its first nuclear test in 1964, while India conducted its first nuclear test in 1974, taking about ten years to catch up."

"China launched its first lunar mission, Chang'e-1, in 2007, while New Delhi launched Chandrayaan-1 in 2008."

"China conducted its first anti-satellite weapon mission in 2007, and India followed suit in 2019."

"India is closely following China in the field of aviation, and we need to have a correct understanding of India's scientific research strength and competitiveness."

This Weibo post sparked considerable discussion at the time.

However, Chinese astronauts later successfully entered the lunar space station, while India's space station disintegrated in space, marking its failure.

Netizens mercilessly dug up the old post and refuted the claim in the comments.

"Even the Indians themselves don't know how awesome they are."

"I have no problem with licking your American daddy's boots, but can you please stop licking every country indiscriminately?"

Netizens dug up the old post and exposed the blogger's falsehoods, leading the blogger to delete the post and pretend to be dead.

It's not just Chinese opinion leaders who praise India; there are also Western bloggers on Twitter.

"India is a major country with rapidly growing technological strength. I am very optimistic that they will surpass China in the 21st century and become the most influential country in Asia."

"The success of manned spaceflight demonstrates India's strong scientific research capabilities, and we should learn more about them."

That's just empty boasting.

After India's space station failed, a large number of Indians who realized the gap between themselves and the world spontaneously organized to hurl insults at these bloggers.

"Please face reality, we are not your tools to deal with China."

"Your boasting about India's technological prowess is nothing more than an attempt to cover up your failure to contain China's technological development."

"Hypocritical Europeans."

On Twitter, Indians are far more combative than Chinese. They tend to stick together, while Chinese and people of Chinese descent are constantly fighting amongst themselves.

India's defeat made the Europa League realize that it should be more cautious.

The Europa Union had limited experience in the aerospace field before, and has been surpassed by China in recent years.

Data from one year shows that China's investment in the aerospace field is 1.6 times that of the European Union and 5.7 times that of Russia, second only to America.

Having lost England as an ally, Japan, which can only make do with its fellow countrymen Australia, is even less able to invest heavily in aerospace.

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