There's an Extremely Stupid Reason NASA Scientists Can't Study China's Amazing New Moon Rocks (futurism.com)

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[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 months ago

Missing key info. Read the article.

[-] B0rax@feddit.de 16 points 4 months ago

The Wolf Amendment, named after former US representative Frank Wolf, prohibits NASA from using government funds to cooperate with the Chinese government — unless it has certification from the FBI that such collaboration poses no threats to national security or risks inadvertently leaking space-related tech or data.

So, it is not like China does not want to cooperate.