China is actively developing a program to explore the moon
China’s Manned Space Flight Program Administration (CMSA) has announced that China plans to land its astronauts on the surface of the
Earth’s natural satellite by 2030.
According to the plan of the project of manned exploration of the moon, the Chinese will land on the moon for the first time before 2030. During this mission, two cosmonauts will fly a manned lunar rover for scientific research.
It is also reported that taikonauts (Chinese astronauts) will travel on the surface of the moon on a lunar rover, which will be equipped with a location determination function (no details yet).
Taikonauts plan to land on the moon before 2030
Beijing has long been developing a space exploration program. In January 2019, a Chinese spacecraft reached the far side of the moon for the first time. The mission was carried out by the interplanetary automatic station Chang’e-4. She landed on the satellite the Yutu-2 lunar rover, which returned to Earth 23 days after launch, having collected about 2 kg of lunar soil.
In May 2024, the Chang’e-6 apparatus is to collect samples in a crater on the far side of the Moon, necessary for the study of microimpurities and isotopes.
