While presumably cooler heads on either side should and will prevail, the war of words
between «
Rocket Man» and «the Dotard» risks allowing events to spiral out of control.
The opening spreads record the history of space travel — from the first
rockets used by the Chinese 2,000 years ago as weapons against the Mongols to the competition
between the United States and the Soviet Union, as each raced to be the first nation to put a
man on the moon.