E195 Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims of Advanced Space Technology
b'In his talk, Kwast claimed that China is already building a \\u201cNavy in space\\u201d complete with the space-based equivalents of \\u201cbattleships and destroyers\\u201d, and that the US is not keeping up. We know that China has been rapidly expanding its presence in space in recent years, placing a lander on the Moon last year as a possible first step toward a permanent Moon base. China has also been developing \\u201cmothership\\u201d aircraft from which to launch \\u2018space planes\\u2019 and other payloads into space. China has been investing heavily in manned and unmanned space technologies that rivals, and in some ways, exceeds our own.'