While nations compete in space, there is also significant collaboration, says Kevin O’Connell, Trump’s former Director of Space Commerce.
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00:00On that note, at a global level, how much is there collaboration versus competition?
00:06I think there's both actually.
00:08We talk about ourselves being in a race with the Chinese at this point.
00:12It's interesting to see how China has come along in the last few decades very, very aggressively.
00:21There's a tremendous amount of competition, but there's also cooperation.
00:26In the first Trump administration, we had the initiation of the Artemis Accords.
00:30That's 50 nations that have actually committed to going back to the moon permanently and
00:35sustainably.
00:36We'll see how that's adjusted in the second Trump administration.
00:41When we go to the moon or we go to space, we don't just go with the things that we have.
00:47We bring our values to space.
00:49When you look at the Artemis Principles, those principles really are about how we intend
00:55to share data, to provide for safety of astronauts, and others.
00:59There's a lot of basis for cooperation.
01:01On the military side, there's also historically been, at least for the United States and what
01:05we call the Five Eyes countries, there's been tremendous cooperation in this area in addition
01:10to other partners.
01:13We just had the Japanese Prime Minister in Washington, and he and the President have
01:17actually reaffirmed pursuits in space together.