It’s important for the United States to beat China in returning to the moon to minimize the possibility that Beijing will try to claim part of its surface, Captain Winston Scott told Newsmax on Wednesday.

Scott, senior vice president at the Florida Institute of Technology and a retired NASA astronaut, said on “Wake Up America” that “as we have seen over the past years, China is not exactly a great friend of the United States,” and that Beijing often uses aggressive and intimidating tactics.

Scott noted that a few years ago China already “demonstrated the ability to shoot down a satellite from orbit … so already they have attempted to militarize space.”

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