China Could Attempt to Take Over the Moon for Surveillance and Military Purposes, NASA Administrator Says

View of the moon through a telescope. Melanie Sun/The Epoch Times

NASA has warned that China could be disguising secret military operations as civilian programs in an attempt to take over parts of the moon.

“We believe that a lot of their so-called civilian space program is a military program,” the space agency’s administrator Bill Nelson said. “And I think, in effect, we are in a race.”