China is on a mission to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, the country has even built its own space station 🌚 Space is quickly becoming a new area of competition between China and the US.
The Shenzhou-16 manned space flight mission, which will carry a team to China's space station, is prepared for launch at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in Gansu province
The new space race stepped up a gear on Monday when China announced it planned to land boots on the Moon by 2030 - challengingSpeaking at a news conference, Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of China’s Manned Space Agency, confirmed the aim of the country’s Chang’e Project - named after the Chinese Moon goddess. He added the plan included a ‘short stay on the lunar surface and human-robotic joint exploration’.
The US is aiming to return people to the Moon by 2025, but its Artemis project has faced a number of delays and challenges. It is only 20 years since China first put a taikonaut - a Chinese astronaut - in space, several decades after the US and. However, the country’s space programme has evolved rapidly, and last year it was reported to have completed the Tiangong space station, with three taikonauts currently on board.Space is quickly becoming a new area of competition between China and the US.
Over the years a number of space treaties have been put forward to attempt to regulate activity in space, but have been insufficiently detailed or become quickly outdated. The most recent, the Artemis Accords, have only been signed by a small number of countries - with China and Russia specifically excluded.Other countries and organisations including India, the United Arab Emirates and the European Union are planning lunar missions, while private companies also have their sights on the Moon.
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