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So says NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, who warns that Beijing could establish a foothold and try to dominate the most resource-rich locations on the lunar surface — or even keep the U.S. out. “It is a fact: we're in a space race,” the former Florida senator and astronaut said in an interview.
It also plans to expand its orbiting space station. BEIJING — China's burgeoning space program plans to place astronauts on the moon before 2030 and expand the country's orbiting space station, officials said Monday.
China is limited by international space law
If China tried to do this, it would risk international condemnation and a potential international retaliatory response. While no country can claim ownership of the moon, Article I of the Outer Space Treaty allows any state to explore and use outer space and celestial bodies.
It hopes to build the first brick on the moon in 2028. China has an ambitious plan to build moon bases using bricks made from lunar regolith — and the project could start as soon as 2028.
How many countries have landed humans on the moon? To date, only one country has succeeded in landing humans on the moon: the United States of America. As part of the Apollo space program, the United States has landed a total of 12 astronauts.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — NASA's goal of returning astronauts to the moon by 2025 has long been part of a long-term plan to build a sustainable base on the lunar surface. But that plan may include more moon bases than you might expect.
"According to the Outer Space Treaty, no country can lay claim to a celestial body.
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The Proton-based Zond program was canceled in 1970, and the N1-L3 program was de facto terminated in 1974 and officially canceled in 1976. Soviet cosmonauts never orbited nor landed on the Moon.
The Chinese spacecraft is the first to ever land on this unexplored area of the moon.
It could probe the thickness of the lunar regolith - the broken up rocks and dust that make up the surface - and shed light on the structure of the upper lunar crust. After the huge impact that created the South Pole-Aitken basin, a large amount of melted rock would have filled the depression.
No one can own the moon
"A nation can plant a flag on the moon, but it doesn't have any legal meaning or consequence. This is entrained in the Outer Space Treaty, where it's written that no country can claim sovereignty on the moon or make it its own territory," said Soucek.
China has discovered the explanation for the mysterious "hut" its Yutu 2 rover spotted on the moon late last year. As the lunar rover made a closer approach, a log of its activities revealed the object was actually just a rock on a crater rim.
(AP) — Scientists have discovered a new and renewable source of water on the moon for future explorers in lunar samples from a Chinese mission. Water was embedded in tiny glass beads in the lunar dirt where meteorite impacts occur.
HELSINKI — China has revealed a concept for a lunar lander it hopes will put astronauts on the moon around the end of the decade. A model of the Chinese lunar lander was unveiled at an exhibition to mark three decades of China's human spaceflight program Feb. 24 at the National Museum of China in Beijing.
Only three entities have successfully soft-landed on the Moon — the government-funded space agencies of China, the Soviet Union and the United States. And only China has done it since the 1970s and on its first attempt.
How many flags are on the Moon? A total of six flags have been planted on the Moon – one for each US Apollo landing.
The demise was triggered when, in April 1970, an oxygen tank exploded two days after the launch of the Apollo 13 mission, threatening the lives of the astronauts on board. Missions after Apollo 17 were cancelled.
Since then, he's sold more than 611 million acres of land on the moon. Individual, one-acre lots sell for $19.95 ($36.50 after a "lunar tax" and shipping and handling of the deed) and there are discounts for larger plots. He once sold a "country-sized" plot of land—2.66 million acres—for $250,000.
China, which made its first lunar landing in 2013, plans to land an astronaut on the moon by 2030. Between now and then, China will launch the Chang'e 6, 7 and 8 missions, with the latter tasked to look for reusable resources on the moon for long-term human habitation.
It took until 1969 before a man – astronaut Neil Armstrong – would take a giant leap for mankind on the surface of the moon, but there is still no base of any kind there.
It took until 1969 before a man—astronaut Neil Armstrong—would take a giant leap for mankind on the surface of the Moon, but there is still no base of any kind on the Moon.
A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2, on 13 September 1959.