In recent months, it has begun dawning on US lawmakers that, absent significant intervention, China will land humans on the Moon before the United States can return there with the Artemis Program.
So far, legislators have yet to take meaningful action on this—a $10 billion infusion into NASA’s budget this summer essentially provided zero funding for efforts needed to land humans on the Moon this decade. But now a subcommittee of the House Committee on Space, Science, and Technology has begun reviewing the space agency’s policy, expressing concerns about Chinese competition in civil spaceflight.
those are not boosting rockets, they’re maneuver, they’re also not cryogenic but UDMH, a toxic methyl derivative that was once one part of the two-part combo Devil’s venom, being combined with red fuming nitric acid (!!!) and used as rocket propellant.
UDMH is both toxic and corrosive. but not cryogenic fuel.