China Follows US To Land Astronauts To The Moon By 2030

Illustration of photos of the Moon (photo: dock. NASA)

JAKARTA - China has finally joined the race to send astronauts to the Moon. This mission is planned to be completed by 2030.

Deputy Director of China's BeRAWk Space Agency, Lin Xiqiang, at a press conference recently stated that plans to send astronauts to the Moon included in the Chang'e Project.

Chang'e, named Dewi Bulan China, will have a mission to stay for a while on the lunar surface and explore with humans and robots, in addition to the mission to build its own space station.

In recent years, China has indeed stepped up its space program by completing its space station dubbed Tiangong, with three taikonaut currently inside.

And yesterday, three more taikonaut headed for Tiangong. Gui Haichao, a professor at Beijing's top aerospace research institute, will join mission commander Jing Haipeng and spacecraft engineer Zhu Yangzhu as payload experts.

The country also plans to set up a research station on the Moon. China was the first country to land an investigation on the far side of the month in 2019 on the Chang'e-4 spacecraft.

For information, humans have not set foot on the Moon since NASA's last Apollo mission in 1972. With this new Chinese plan, it will be in tight competition with the United States (US) which will send humans to the Earth's natural satellite by 2025, as part of the Artemis program.

NASA's program will send the first woman and first colored astronaut to the Moon. Other countries that join to visit the Moon, including India, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the European Union.

Not only them, but private companies from Japan ispace are also trying to land the Hakuto-R 1 spacecraft, but failed to land smoothly because they miscalculated their distance to the lunar surface. Thus quoted from Metro and Business Insider, Tuesday, May 30.