" "China within the last decade has had enormous success and advances" in its space program..." " via RT Beijing's space program has achieved "enormous success" over the past decade, agency chief Bill Nelson acknowledges. China may try to gain control of the most resource-rich locations on the Moon if it wins the competition against the US for Earth's only planetary-mass, NASA administrator Bill Nelson has said. China may try to gain control of the most resource-rich locations on the Moon if it wins the competition against the US for Earth's only planetary-mass, NASA administrator Bill Nelson has said. "It is a fact: we're in a space race," Nelson said in an interview with Politico on Sunday. "And it is true that we better watch out that they [China] don't get to a place on the moon under the guise of scientific research. And it is not beyond the realm of possibility that they say, 'Keep out, we're here, this is our territory,'" he warned. The problem is that "there are only so many