China's space plans are helping America focus its own moonshot.
"This is a competitive country. We need peer competitors to excel ourselves. For many years, the."As it grows in economic power and global impact, China is now playing that role. More than that, if you look at what China says and does, it is clearly aiming to be, as the U.S. is aiming to be, the global leader."
This December, China intends to launch Xuntian, a modern rival to the Hubble telescope. It's scheduled to come online for at least 10 years starting in 2024, the same year it plans to send probes to study near-Earth asteroids and icy comets. "China plans to build the space station into a state-level space lab supporting long astronaut stays and large-scale scientific, technological and application experiments, Zhou Jianping, chief designer of the country's manned space program, told the official Xinhua news agency in December.
In 2025, Chang'e 6, also named for the Chinese lunar deity, could return samples from the moon's south pole, where Beijing also wants to land its Chang'e 7 probe the following year. The International Lunar Research Station, a collaboration between China's CNSA and
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