Nasa is working on the USA’s return to the moon and China is also aiming for the moon. Nasa boss warns of Chinese space plans
Washington DC – Almost 50 years ago, astronauts were last on the moon landed. For a while now they want United States Back to the Moon, the first part of the US Space Agency’s “Artemis” program NASA, a flight of the new moon rocket around the moon, could start in the summer or autumn of 2022. But it will probably be a few years before the first humans land on the moon again – the official target is 2025, but experts assume that it will take longer. Another nation might even get ahead of the US: China has an ambitious space program and is working to put people on the moon.
Now Nasa boss Bill Nelson warns against the picture before the Chinese space program: “We must be very concerned that China lands on the moon and says: This is ours now and you stay outside”. Nelson, a politician himself once an astronaut in space, adds: “China’s space program is a military space program.” Unlike Nasa’s “Artemis” program, the Chinese are not willing to share their research results and to share the moon. “There’s a new race to space – this time with China.”
Nasa boss warns of China’s space and moon program
The People’s Republic has launched some sensational programs in space travel in recent years. China already has several rovers on the moon – including as the first nation on the back side – landed and Moon rocks returned to Earth. In addition, China last year at the first attempt Landing of a rover succeeded on Mars. The People’s Republic is currently working on building a space station. According to Chinese state media, a permanent station on the moon is set to emerge in the 2030s. The research station should set up and operated jointly with Russia.
But what military purposes could China pursue in space? Nelson explained to the picture: “Well, what do you think is happening on the Chinese space station? There they learn how to destroy other people’s satellites.” The Nasa boss also accuses China of stealing technology: “China is good. But China is also good because they steal ideas and technology from others.”
Nasa wants to return to the moon – China wants to land there for the first time
China has invested billions in its space program in recent years, as has the United States have been working on returning to the moon for years. as Lunar module for the “Artemis” missions Nasa has the “Starship” from SpaceX selected. The rocket, with which the astronauts and astronauts (this time a woman is to set foot on the moon for the first time) are to fly to the moon, has been under construction in the USA for years and is about to make its first flight.
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In December 1972, the last two NASA astronauts left the moon. It was Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt who spent 22 hours and two minutes on the moon as part of NASA’s Apollo 17 mission. In the coming years, the US wants to hoist its flag on the moon again – but China could forestall the proud space nation and would then be the second nation to land humans on the moon. (tab)
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