In recent days, some senior officials at China's space agency have said the country intends to take astronauts to the moon by the year 2023, as well as expanding and improving the space station that own.
These intentions were confirmed by the deputy director of the Chinese Manned Space Agency, Lin Xiqiang, in a recent interview. Keep reading and understand better!
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What are China's plans?
According to Lin Xinqiang, China is preparing for a short stay on the moon's surface. According to him, the operation will be joint and will feature an interaction between humans and robots.
The initial one is that the intention is for three astronauts to be launched from the space station to the moon in a spacecraft. Still according to Lin Xinqiang, the complete schedule of testing and testing of the missions cannot yet be disclosed, but it is enough for all the objectives of the mission to be fulfilled.
Despite the secrecy of the information, it is already public knowledge that, for the first time in history, a civilian will compose the crew of a space mission.
He will be a Chinese aerospace research professor, who will join the operation commander and mission engineers.
How is China preparing for the mission?
Preparations for sending Chinese astronauts to the moon are in full swing. At the end of last year, a test module was launched from the Chinese space station towards Earth's natural satellite.
These and other tests have been carried out to test current capabilities and understand what still needs to be done to reach the final objective.
The directors of China's space operations say they are working to get the next launch done soon, but at the right time.
After all, does the country have the capacity for such an onslaught?
Rumors that China intends to take astronauts to the moon by the year 2030 have made many people question whether the country really has the capacity to do this.
Beforehand, it is important to mention that the Asian country currently has its own space station, which was developed some time after its exclusion from the International Space Station.
The episode was caused by the escalation of tensions between China and the United States, causing the Chinese were left out of the space programs led by the American space agency, the famous NASA.
Even cooperation between China and the US in the scope of space exploration has been banned by the US Congress.
In turn, the directors of the Chinese space station say that the country's objective is to carry out operations with peaceful purposes. With this, it is clear that the Chinese do not want to target any other space station, in addition to cooperating with other countries and maintaining good communication.
