China intends to blow up its astronauts on the surface of the moon by 2030. And although, formally, this is somewhat later than NASA’s declared landing “before the end of 2025,” but this is starting to look very much like a new space chase.
According to the Deputy Director of the Chinese Manned Space Agency Lin Xiqiang, the Celestial Empire plans several projects on the Moon at once. According to Phys, one of them involves sending a person to the Earth’s satellite and working.
According to Xiqiang, China’s first goal is a short-term visit to the moon, which will be carried out by a man and a robot. It is not known exactly when this flight to the satellite will take place, the Chinese official said only that this will happen before 2030.
He also stressed that China already has the infrastructure in place to make such a flight possible, as well as “a system for transporting people back and forth.”
We are talking, in particular, about the Tiangong space station, the third section of which was added in November 2022.
China also unveiled a new crew that will travel to the space station on May 30. They believe that the planned two manned space flights a year fully satisfy the plans for preparing a flight to the moon, so the Celestial Empire’s space program does not need special updates.
In the near future, Chinese astronauts intend to expand the Tiangong space station, equipping it with a fourth module, added to expand the program of scientific experiments, as well as provide better conditions for the work and life of the crew.
The crew, which will go to the station, for the first time included a civilian. All previous Chinese astronauts have been members of the People’s Liberation Army, the military wing of the ruling Communist Party. An exception was made for Professor Gi Haichao, a leading Beijing Aerospace Research Institute, who serves as a payload expert.
Flight commander Jing Haipeng said their mission marks “a new stage in the application and development” of China’s space program.
In 2003, China became the third country after the USSR and the USA to send a man into space.
China has built its own Tiangong space station after Chinese astronauts were expelled from the International Space Station. In particular, because the United States denied the possibility of military participation in space projects.
Space is now turning into a new field for confrontation between the United States and China, the countries with the most powerful economies in the world. NASA previously announced its intention to send astronauts to the moon by the end of 2025. Whether this date will be shifted is still unknown, but few space programs of recent decades fit into the announced time frame. American astronauts are set to land on the south pole of the moon, where craters are expected to be filled with frozen water.
Both countries also have plans to set up permanent monthly bases.
The US sent six crews to the Moon between 1969 and 1972, three of which involved a manned lunar rover, which China says it is also developing.
Earlier, GLOBAL HAPPENINGS also reported that Chinese scientists had discovered a new crystal in the soil.
Source: Obozrevatel
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