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Japan: Manned Space Exploration: Demonstrate the Presence of Japanese Technology

Dorothy Phoenix - April 28, 2026. Published in Sankei Shimbun

Without clear international rules for using the lunar surface's resources, there is concern about a first-come, first-served competitive struggle.

Germany: Moon Mission: US and China Vie for Supremacy in Space

Kirsty Low - April 7, 2026. Published in Die Tageszeitung

It would be a political catastrophe for Donald Trump if [Chinese] taikonauts reached the lunar south pole before the U.S. hoisted its flag there again..

Switzerland: Why We Have To Get to the Moon before China

Mallory Matsumoto - September 17, 2022. Published in Luzerner Zeitung

NASA ... is a bit out of practice launching moon rockets.

Taiwan: New Space Race Offers Opportunity

Robin Koerner - February 24, 2021. Published in Taipei Times

Russia: Trump, Musk or Xi Jingping? The Next Moon Landing Depends on the Election Result

Robin Koerner - July 25, 2020. Published in Regnum

The reason why NASA wants to land the 'first woman and the next man' on the moon in just four years lies in the desire to avoid a case of the same attention deficit disorder that led to the cancellation of the last two attempts to put Americans on the moon.

Spain: Voyage to the Moon

Robin Koerner - July 30, 2019. Published in El País

[T]he real voyage to the moon is the development that those of us alive in 1969 have experienced since then.

Canada: We Must Recover the Ambitious Spirit of the Moon Landing

Rejeanne Lacroix - July 22, 2019. Published in Toronto Star

Australia: On Our Planet Crying Out for Direction, Swoon at the Moon Landing Leaders

Rejeanne Lacroix - July 22, 2019. Published in Sydney Morning Herald

Netherlands: To the Moon

Robin Koerner - July 28, 2009. Published in NRC Handelsblad

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