Continuing the space race with the USA, China announced that it will send astronauts to the Moon before 2030. In the country’s first manned Moon mission, astronauts will be on the surface for a short time.
The space race continues unabated between companies as well as between countries. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) wanted to send astronauts to the Moon as early as 2025 as part of the Artemis missions.
Today, a statement came from China, which competes with the USA in the space race. China Manned Space Agency, to the Moon that they will send astronauts by 2030 officially announced.
A short stay on the lunar surface is planned.
Lin Xiqiang, one of the agency’s directors, announced at a conference in the city of Jiuquan today that the country has a goal of sending humans to the Moon by 2030. Moon surface in Xiqiang, China while he says he plans to stay short-term, the mission is in a human-robot partnership. He added that it would be a discovery
With these moves of China, the relationship between the USA and China space race it started to get hotter. Both countries have plans to establish colonies on the Moon. With its current plans, China seems determined to catch up with its formidable rivals such as the USA and Russia. Over the years, the country has accomplished successful tasks such as sample retrieval from the Moon, Mars missions and the Tiangong station.
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Tiangong station will grow
In addition, China introduced the new crew to be sent to the Tiangong Space Station. It will be sent to the station by Shenzou 16 vehicle on May 30. from 3 people One of the formed crew will be a civilian for the first time. That person will be Gui Haicho, a professor at one of the leading aviation institutes.
China also built Tiangong station. want to expand also added. According to Lin Xiqiang’s statement a fourth modulewill be added at “appropriate” time to advance support for scientific experiments and provide better working and living conditions for the crew. The station was normally planned to consist of 3 sections. The third and final module was launched into orbit in November 2022 and added to the station. However, today’s statement revealed that Tiangong will grow even more.
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https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-officially-announces-plans-to-send-astronauts-to-the-moon-before-2030