joint chiefs chairman in november 2022 with a stark warning. >> we are in the middle of one of the most fundamental changes in the air of the world, in history of mankind. >> and talk of war extends into space. the space race is no longer a race between just the u.s. and russia, china has leapt on russia, launching more rockets than the u.s. in 2022, completing its own orbiting space station. landing robotic missions on the far side of the moon. >> that country that adapts the fastest, that country that innovates the most, that country is going to have a decisive advantage at the beginning of a war, which i suspect will happen at some point in time, sometime in the deep future. >> let's go into space because it is in our dna -- >> neil degrasse tyson is america's best known astrophysicist. >> the u.s. and china seem to be engaged in a new race to the