NASA in the United States is discussing rental moon samples with China

The agency is discussing with Chinese officials in order to allow American scientists to study rock samples collected from the back of the moon.

According to Reuters, China became the first country to collect rock samples from the back of the moon in June this year, highlighting the country's continuous enhanced strength in the space field.Chinese officials provide these samples to study global scientists, but publicly mentioned that a law in the United States has limited the cooperation between NASA and China.

Bill Nelson, Director of NASA, said NASA officials have been discussing the clause of the agreement with Chinese counterparts.Negotiations will not constitute national security issues.

Nelson said to Reuters at the International Aerospace Conference held by Milan, Italy: "We are doing further with China."

Nielsen said that he believes that the negotiations between the two parties will "actively actively."As a result, China will promise to rent lunar samples.These samples weighed 1935.3 grams. On June 4th, the Chinese Chang'e -6 rising device was carried back from the back of the moon. On June 25, it landed on the scheduled area of ​​the Sizi Wangqi in Inner Mongolia.

Although China and the United States continue to compete for the military and economic dominant positions in the space field, the discussion on lunar rock samples is one of the few exchanges between the two countries in the space field.

Reuters quoted three U.S. officials who did not want to participate in the talks that in the past year, officials from multiple US government agencies have begun to make subtle efforts and contact ChinaCoordination and communication mechanism in the field.These officials said that this shows that the strategy of the United States on the Chinese space plan has changed to avoid misjudgment in space operations in the future.

In recent years, some US members who are concerned about the competition between China and the United States have been criticizing the scientific cooperation between the two countries.In August of this year, the US government asked the Sino -US science and technology cooperation agreement with China for decades, and the two countries are currently negotiating whether they are renewed.