China's Plan to Conquer the Moon, Mars and More

 

China Plan to Go More faster than anyone else

Every two years, there's a critical window to go to Mars. This summer, the planets aligned so that a spacecraft can get there with the least amount of

Fuel. NASA is sending its ninth spacecraft to the red planet's surface and other nations are trying to go too. One is China, which is launching its first

Solo expedition. Aiming to send in one go, as much equipment as the U.S. did in several missions to potentially find evidence of past or present life.

That's a whole lot of steps at once. China will really have made a stand for their space agency and for their country. We're in a space race today

Similarly as we were during the 1960s. And the stakes are even higher. The U.S. and China are contenders for science, profit, and pride beyond the

 

       

Stratosphere. And China has made a lot of progress. Since 2018, it has sent more rockets than any other country and has become the second biggest

spender in space programs behind the U.S. Here's what China is aiming for in space and how those plans can challenge the U.S. In China, since you have

a continuance of a Communist Party of China, its ability to focus on one mission spans 10 years. Namrata Goswami analyzes space programs in China

and the U.S. She says China's space program's greatest advantage is that once the single party government sets a longterm goal, plans are unlikely to

change. For instance, China is scheduled to set up mankind's first permanent Lunar base in 2036. Experts say China envisions the moon becoming a sort of

pit stop and gas station, charging other countries to refuel spacecrafts that

Need to reach farther destinations. Meanwhile, NASA, Congress, and the wider space community have debated for decades, whether to refocus on

the moon. - In the U.S. the problem is that you have a change in perspective,

With the change in administration. Obama said that we do not need to go to the moon anymore. - We've been there before. Suddenly you have Trump

Come in and he argues that no, we need to go back to the moon. It's the moon to Mars. Well, the debate continues in the U.S., China is breaking new

Ground. It landed a robotic explorer on the moon's far side last year. Something no other nation has ever done previously. 

The first step is the Moon. China want to make this step very solid. And to build our ability and

to get good technology and that we can go farther. Long Xiao says China's Change’s 5 probe launch later this year could return lunar samples to earth

and help advance research into turning them into rocket fuel. The United States is still talking about getting somewhere first in space, showing off

new technology. The primary lady, and the following man on the moon will both be American space explorers, propelled by American rockets from

American soil.. But the one advantage the U.S. may have is a number of collaborations between NASA and private space companies led by high

profile billionaires. The space agency has signed billion dollar partnerships to do things like sending NASA astronauts and space tourists into orbit. We

have all these rich folks, they love rockets.  Space experts say the pooling of money and brains from various companies and universities is what makes

the U.S. program so special. As of today, the U.S. stays a model for China, which is really gaining from NASA's inheritance and space. Still.  The little

one, just to learn from us that we want to contribute to our new knowledge to the human being. This is also, I think the some kind form of national

pride. In recent years, China has surpassed the West in areas like 5G and quantum encryption. Technology that experts say could accelerate China's

space progress. But Xiao says China has had its fair share of failures. Almost a decade ago, the country's first orbiter to Mars had to hitch a ride off a

Russian rocket and never made it there. This summer, Tianzhou 1 will

demonstrate technology that NASA is also rolling out for the first time, a

radar mounted on top of the Rover to detect subsurface water. But there's one big difference. While NASA is partnering with the European Space

Agency to bring back the Martian soil and rock samples to earth in 2026, China is doing it solo, and it's not necessarily a choice. NASA has never

Worked with China because of national security concern. The U.S. barred Chinese astronauts from entering the International Space Station and

Excluded China from being part of the Gateway, a moon orbiting space station. There's not a good thing about the tension between China and the

United States, but I understand it to share the technology is harder for any

country. So instead, China has planned its own Mars' sample return mission in 2028, not far from the NASA and ISA timeline. The U.S. does not seem to

realize that because it ban any kind of space collaboration between the U.S. and China, China develop its own indigenous capacity. So they turned a disadvantage into an advantage. In the long term, some scientists from both

the U.S. and China have said they hope cooperation will help share costs and expertise. For science, we hope we can share scientific resource, exploration

data, and that will allow scientists to work together.