Red Moon Rising: How America Will Beat China on the Final Frontier

The space race was a critical determining factor in the Cold War. After its Sputnik miracle, the Soviets' loss of the race to the Moon undermined the international mystique of Communism and crushed the USSR's dreams of world domination. America's wildly successful Apollo program, by sharp contrast, brought America global glory and prestige-along with a plethora of "miracle technologies" that accelerated economic growth and strengthened US national security for half a century. We are now embroiled with a brutal and autocratic Communist China in a new cold war and second, far more consequential, race to the Moon-whichever country seizes the commanding heights of the moon will have preferential access to vast lunar resources that will determine the quality of life on Earth and the political and moral character of the human diaspora as it advances into the solar system. America should win Space Race 2.0 and is leading an international and commercial coalition to do so. Yet, Communist China is giving no ground even as its rockets soar above us. The clear risk: Timid and visionless policy makers in the White House and Congress may well surrender the ultimate high ground to the butchers of Beijing. Greg Autry and Peter Navarro have been warning of this competition for more than a decade. Both were influential in the construction of America's triumphant space agenda during the Trump administration. In this book, they take you through the technology, economics, and history of this important topic and provide policy recommendations that will win the Space Race for America. "Space superiority is one of the most important goals for long-term American survival. Greg Autry and Peter Navarro clearly describe the challenges we face in outer space-and the devastating consequences if America cedes space leadership to other nations. The dangers we face are real. If we don't confront them, the future could be catastrophic for America and the world." -Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives "This superbly researched book is equivalent to the warnings by Winston Churchill in the 1930s regarding the catastrophic failure of leadership by the West to counter Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan before the onset of WWII.... If we prevail in this space race-which makes the one with the Soviets in the 1960s look like child's play by comparison-the political, social, and economic benefits to the world will be beyond measure." -Courtney Stadd, Former Director, Commercial Space Policy at the White House National Space Council; Former NASA Chief of Staff; and currently Executive Vice President, Beyond Earth Institute "This book needs to be on the desk of every official in the Pentagon, Congress, the White House, and the Western World, not to mention everyone who wants to understand the Space Race 2.0 now fully engaged between the USA and China in the context of a world that is increasingly hostile to the values of our American republic and Western civilization in general." -Homer Hickam, NASA Engineer and Author of Rocket Boys (aka October Sky) "The threat of the 21st century...the authors nailed it. The United States is an aerospace nation...from the beaches of Kitty Hawk to the International Space Station to the James Webb Space Telescope and beyond...this and all of the benefits of access to and use of space for the betterment of humankind are at risk.... The authors paint a clear picture of the threats to the free use of space from basic commerce to international security. A must-read!" -Major General (Ret.) Lee Levy, Member of the NASA Advisory Council