#PRC: #Moon: China invents ILRSCO for the Moon Race in the 2030s. Rick Fisher, senior fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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🗓️ 18 May 2023
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#PRC: #Moon: China invents ILRSCO for the Moon Race in the 2030s. Rick Fisher, senior fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Island. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm John Necks with my colleague in Fred and Gordon Chang, and we're going space exploring |
| 0:10.4 | low-earth orbit, higher-athorbite the moon, Mars, and beyond. |
| 0:14.5 | We're going that end to explore that route thanks to Rick Fisher of the International Assessment |
| 0:19.8 | and Strategy Center who's here to tell us of a new organization not yet revealed but |
| 0:25.7 | hinted at by an announcement at the end of April. |
| 0:29.1 | It's called the International Lunar Research Station Cooperation Organization, which is |
| 0:35.3 | a cumbersome acronym, IRISCO. |
| 0:38.8 | It is Chinese and origin. |
| 0:41.2 | What is its mission? |
| 0:42.4 | What is its scale? |
| 0:44.0 | Rick, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:45.4 | IRISCO, when was it revealed? |
| 0:47.3 | What do we know of it so far? |
| 0:48.8 | It sounds like competition. |
| 0:50.4 | Good evening. |
| 0:51.4 | Good evening, John. |
| 0:52.4 | Good evening, Gordon. |
| 0:53.8 | Yes, IRISCO was announced by Wu Weren, the Chief Designer of China's Lunar Exploration |
| 1:03.4 | Program in Director of the China Deep Space Exploration Laboratory in Hefe China. |
| 1:12.6 | On April 25, the first day of a major deep space conference sponsored by his organization, |
| 1:21.6 | he announced that there would be a formal organization that would grow out of the 2001 |
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