China sent another three astronauts into space — including the first civilian — on Tuesday morning, a day after announcing plans to land astronauts on the moon before 2030 and setting up a new sphere of rivalry with the United States.
, with administrator Bill Nelson describing a Cold War-like space race, only this time against China instead of the Soviet Union.
China made its ambitions for expanding the country’s presence in space clear on Monday, when Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the China Manned Space Agency, set a 2030 time frame for doing the same and laid out plans for scientific and technical research there, officially confirming that a previous timeline of landing astronauts on the moon after 2030 had been brought forward.
“Our astronauts will walk on the moon, collect samples around the landing site and perform some in situ research. This will lead off our manned missions from low Earth orbit to deep space and help deepen mankind’s knowledge about the origin and evolution of the moon and the solar system,” he said, according to state media reports from the news conference.
China’s Shenzhou-16 spacecraft, propelled by a Long March 2F carrier rocket, launched at 9:31 a.m. local time on Tuesday morning and is transporting three Chinese astronauts from the Jiuquan center in the Gobi Desert to the Tiangong space station.This marks the first time a Chinese civilian has gone into space.
The five-month mission is the first to the Chinese space station since it became fully operational late last year. Its expected 15 years in orbit mean that the station could become the sole permanent research facility after the International Space Station is decommissioned in 2030.
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