China Unveils Detailed Plan for Manned Moon Landing
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China unveils detailed plan for manned moon landing
China will adopt a "two launches, lunar orbit rendezvous" architecture for its manned lunar exploration program, a senior engineer said on Saturday, as development work for lunar landing advances steadily. Wang Xiang, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program and chief designer of the lunar exploration program, outlined the plan at the 7th Manned Space Symposium in Beijing. Under the scheme, two rockets would separately send the Lany…
China has detailed the plan that should take two taikonautas to the Moon before 2030, with two rocket launches and two lunar orbit couplings.
China unveiled details of its mission to achieve its first human landing on the Moon by 2030 at the 7th Human Space Symposium in Beijing. According to the plan, two Long March-10 rockets will launch Lanyue and Mengzhou; two of the three astronauts will land on the lunar surface.
The Chinese lunar module will be tested in an unmanned test flight before transitioning to a crewed mission. The mission covers all phases from lunar orbit to landing on the surface and re-docking.
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