How China and NASA's human moon-landing plans compare
China plans an uncrewed rehearsal before its first crewed lunar landing, while NASA is using test flights and commercial landers to reach the moon sooner.
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Will China’s slow and steady moon landing plan be a safer bet than the US’?
China’s full dress rehearsal for its crewed moon landing would be tougher on schedule but safer than Nasa’s cheaper bet on commercial landers, a US space policy analyst said after the rival powers updated their lunar plans within a week of each other. Wang Xiang, deputy chief designer of China’s crewed space programme, said in Beijing on October 31 that, before sending any astronauts, China would dock the Lanyue lander and Mengzhou spacecraft in…
Tests from 2027 and a lunar landing rehearsal in 2029 are foreseen in the plan presented in Beijing – NASA aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface in 2028.
Bridge of Time: China's Plan to Visit the Moon, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Finally, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) may suffer a major defeat in space exploration because at this time...
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