The Broader Strategic Implications of the Moon-Mars Project

The world is engulfed in a wave of cultural optimism as it recalls the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon 50 years ago, and ponders the prospects of applying that same Kennedy-esque “can-do” approach to the daunting tasks facing humanity today. A leading obstacle in the way of the kind of international cooperation needed for our next step as a space-faring species, is the anti-China campaign being promoted by leading Establishment circles in the United Kingdom and the United States today.

The problem was evident at the recent space conference in Zhuhai, China, which brought together leading scientists from China, Russia, India, Europe and other nations—but not the United States—to discuss a joint effort to build a Moon research station. “The U.S. is shooting itself in the foot by not participating in such international cooperation,” Helga Zepp- LaRouche said today. The British geopolitical campaign which views China as an opponent and even an enemy—as repeated in a Sunday New York Times Editorial Board statement—is “wrong thinking” which needs to end, and end fast, she said.

We are at the dawn of a new age of civilization, in which Man will industrialize the Moon and colonize Mars. President Trump’s announcement that “We are going” to the Moon by 2024, as a stepping stone to Mars, carries the right spirit, but few of the economic and scientific policy specifics required to actually fulfill that mission. Those have been provided by visionary space scientist Krafft Ehricke, and by the renowned statesman Lyndon LaRouche, who presented, over 30 years ago, the policies required to carry out such a project.

It can be scientifically asserted, Zepp-LaRouche stated in a discussion with associates, that for that reason the exoneration of LaRouche and Mankind’s required space policy are one and the same issue.

“I think the most important thing is that you got a glimpse of what kind of human spirit is possible, once people concentrate on the common aims of mankind, on the tremendous creative potential of the human species to overcome every limitation, as Krafft Ehricke said, and as Lyndon LaRouche devoted his entire life’s work to this idea. The two issues—space exploration and LaRouche’s exoneration—are really one and the same thing.

“Because once he is exonerated, there would be a complete exploration and discussion of his ideas. Every student, every person could start to read LaRouche’s works in an unprejudiced way. The creative potential which would be unleashed by doing that is huge: his conceptions in almost every field of knowledge are the most advanced, and only very few people have even an inkling of what the scientific debate is, for example, between a Riemannian universe conception and that of the reductionist-deductionist approach.

“Once you have an unmediated discussion about that, this would be like the introduction of Plato into the fertile ferment of the Italian Renaissance, in which Nikolaus of Cusa was the founder of the modern nation-state, and modern science.

“The two times Europe came out of a dark age, going into a Renaissance, they always would refer back to the highest ideas which were produced by mankind up to that point, which meant the Italian Renaissance went back to the ancient Greek Classic; and the German Classic went back to both the ancient Greek Classic and the Italian Renaissance, and naturally also Shakespeare, who was translated into German at a point when he was less known even in Great Britain.

“Today we are in a dark age. And if we want to get out of this, we have to unleash the whole world—Chinese scholars, Indian scholars, Russian scholars—to look at LaRouche’s body of ideas in the same way as people look at Plato, and Cusa, and Leibniz, and Einstein. This is especially key now, with his ideas about a relativistic universe, which people have to consider once we start space travel. Once we go to Mars, it will not be by conventional propulsion, because that is just not bearable.

“And once we go into a relativistic idea of the universe, as the precondition to travel safely to Mars, and later beyond, it means a complete revolution in the thinking of man, and that is why we need LaRouche’s entire works to be available, unprejudiced with all the slanders he has been subjected to.

“So I think the excitement about this new revival of the ‘Moon fever,’ the Apollo 11 50th anniversary, has to be combined with the exoneration of LaRouche. And we should concentrate on the idea that Buzz Aldrin stated—he was the only one who has mentioned this—that we need an international united space alliance for this to happen.”