Space
Duffy Tells NASA ‘I’ll Be Damned’ If China Beats US to Moon
Man's first landing on the moon on July 20, 1969.
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NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy pushed back against recent critics who have suggested China will beat the US back to the moon, saying “I‘ll be damned” if that is the ultimate outcome of the decade’s space race.
Duffy, who is also the US Secretary of Transportation, made the comments during an agency-wide address to NASA workers on Thursday, along with the agency’s newly appointed associate administrator, Amit Kshatriya, according to an audio recording obtained by Bloomberg.