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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman warned in May 2026 that China will likely send taikonauts on a circumlunar mission by 2027, while NASA's own crewed lunar landing has slipped to 2028 at the earliest. The assessment raises urgent questions about strategic consequences, the validity of "space race" framing, and whether the U.S. legal ban on cooperating with China in space is accelerating the very competition it was meant to contain.