{"id":334950,"date":"2017-11-14T12:55:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T11:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-china-years-ahead-of-us-in-space-race\/"},"modified":"2017-11-14T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T11:55:34","slug":"presstv-china-years-ahead-of-us-in-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-china-years-ahead-of-us-in-space-race\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018China years ahead of US in space race\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States has fallen behind China in \u201coperationalizing space,\u201d says a high-ranking US Air Force general, calling for a more aggressive and less bureaucratic approach to catch up.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant General Steve Kwast, the commander and president of Air University at the Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, told CNBC that China\u2019s space program could cause a national security problem for America.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIn my best military judgment, China is on a 10-year journey to operationalize space. We\u2019re on a 50-year journey,\u201d the general said, according to Breitbart report on Monday. \u201cWe could be on a five-year journey because it\u2019s all about how aggressively we are going about this journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kwast said Washington needed to \u201cbring together the right talent to accelerate the journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One way to do so, he said, was by cutting down on government regulations and bureaucratic measures that slowed down space programs, specially for private&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/11\/14\/542154\/US-China-space-race-Kwast\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has fallen behind China in \u201coperationalizing space,\u201d says a high-ranking US Air Force general, calling for a more aggressive and less bureaucratic approach to catch up.\u00a0 Lieutenant General Steve Kwast, the commander and president of Air University at the Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, told CNBC that China\u2019s space program could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-334950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}