Review of 'Red Moon Rising'

A new book by Greg Autry and Peter Navarro paints a stark picture of the challenged posed by Chinese space ambitions.

I recall when China placed its first man in space in 2003 aboard Shenzhou 5, there was a lot of talk of a coming US-China space race - not least because at the time of that mission, NASA was still reeling from the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia, which perhaps fed into the perception that the US was a declining space power and China a rising one. Des…