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A Filipino is being acknowledged as the inventor of the Lunar Rover, or more popularly known as the Moon Buggy which was used by Neil Armstrong, but until now, no Pinoy have set a foot on the moon. The space race belongs to Russia and US, and China is joining them.

NASA has a 2020 deadline for returning Americans to the moon. China would like to beat that.

The Soviets beat the United States at getting a satellite, and a man, into space. Now, the Chinese may get to the moon before the U.S. can make a return visit.

"I personally believe that China will be back on the moon before we are,'' NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said in a low-key lecture in Washington two weeks ago, marking the space agency's 50th anniversary, still a year away.

"I think when that happens, Americans will not like it. But they will just have to not like it."

The U.S. is "more technically advanced. We certainly could be back on the moon faster than the Chinese, but we don't have the political will and therefore the resources to do it,'' said Joan Johnson-Freese, head of the Naval War College's national security decision-making department.

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