NASA Administrator on Using Space as a Foreign Policy Tool: ‘China ... Is Not Nearly as Successful as We Are Because They Are Much More Secretive’

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NELSON: "Well, let me say that, you know, when we fly a foreign astronaut, that certainly is a part of a foreign policy tool. When we do a foreign experiment, when the University of Edinburgh is a major principal investigator on the James Webb space telescope, that’s all foreign policy as well. Likewise, China does, tries, but is not nearly as successful as we are, because they are much more secretive in their space program."