This is the intergalactic flag of Earth. If your flag isn't represented you're not relevant

their space program is intrinsically tied to their armed forces, so international cooperation is difficult for them because anyone who works with chinas space program is by extension supporting their ICBM/military programs.

most space fairing countries (even Russia), have a clear separation of authority between military and civilian agencies.

i think china likes being left alone because it allows them to do things in secret without anyone getting access to it.

>most space fairing countries (even Russia), have a clear separation of authority between military and civilian agencies.
That's what you think. See Almaz project and why I suspect internal sabotage on the part of those damn hippies.

>even fucking belgium is on it
oh non non non

Then what's the flag at the bottom?

Artemis is moving along pretty quickly compared to the ISS project, so that’s good. But the main problem is the sustainability issues need to be sorted out.

SLS is far too expensive for a multi-decade program, but thankfully it only has 3 flights scheduled. I think everyone realizes that Starship will eventually replace SLS and become the primary super heavy lift vehicle in the second half of this decade.

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>i think china likes being left alone because it allows them to do things in secret without anyone getting access to it.
The US intentionally excluded them even though the ISS was supposed to be above politics. Also acting like other countries space programs aren't tied to the military is US hypocrisy at its finest.

Official reason is they dropped some 1st stage boosters on some peasant's roof

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newsweek.com/why-china-banned-iss-station-1587708

>China is conspicuous by its absence from this list, and the reason lies simply in the fact that the U.S. does not want it to be there.

>The 2011 Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, which set rules and funding for defense and other U.S. government agencies for that year, states in section 1340 that NASA may not use funds from that division to collaborate in any way with China unless a law specifically authorizes it.

>Also acting like other countries space programs aren't tied to the military is US hypocrisy at its finest.

Chinas space program is literally under their equivalent of the defense department. The whole organization is militarized and there’s basically no separation between military and civilian applications within their agency and military.

Such a relationship does not exist here, or Canada, ESA, JAXA, or like I said, even Russia. Do these agencies cooperate with their countries militaries sometimes? yes but usually it’s pretty transparent and within the ITAR rules for those who are signatories to it.

You can try and ignore these issues because you don’t think it’s important from your perspective, but it doesn’t shock me that government officials don’t look to kindly on it when have to take nukes into consideration or other things of that nature.

Isnt this basically all west euros and japan.

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I said official reason, not real reason. One world globohomo can ostracize you from anything any time it wants.