Who will be first back to the moon, the USA, China, Japan or??? and why?

Question

Who will be first back to the moon, the USA, China, Japan or??? and why?

Answer 1

USA has the technology and money while China is busy with the Olympics and Japan is busy with their rising economy. But USA has to deal with the IRAQ WAR but its USA.

Answer 2

I think it will be a joint mission.  USA, Russia, EU, Canada, Japan, all of them together.  

Simply too expensive for one country to take on alone.

Answer 3

I think China simply because they want to go to the moon and put a tag on it that says "Made In China" since...you know everything seems to be.

Answer 4

I think it will be China.

When China wants to do something they do not worry about the cost.

The Olympics and the 7 Gorges Dam are example how once they set their mind to do something, they get it done in record time.

If they need more money they will simply call in loans, (mainly US) or sell some of their US companies and properties.

Answer 5

It will be either USA or China, USA is planning on building a colony on the moon and test vehicles that will later be used on Mars. China will be going to the moon because they have never been there, they plan to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon, first they will send a satellite which will be orbiting the Moon; a lander in 2010; and returning samples before 2020 and Japan will be going to the moon in future times

Answer 6

India is wild about space too.  Is there a space agency in the Middle East...they desperately need to get in on it.