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China announces manned moon mission

By T.K. Randall
December 30, 2011 · Comment icon 56 comments

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China has declared plans to land a man on the moon and to build a space station by as early as 2020.
The announcement came as part of a five-year plan that details the progress of China's space exploration endeavours including the development of new satellites and a significant technological breakthrough in manned spaceflight by 2016. "When looking up at the starry sky, we are full of longing and yearning for the vast universe," said China space official Zhang Wei. If the country succeeds in its ambitions it will be the first nation to put a man on the moon since the last Apollo mission in 1972.
A white paper published on Thursday laid out the country's five-year plan for the development on new satellites, spacecraft and a space station and provided the official confirmation of China's lunar ambitions.


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Comment icon #47 Posted by puridalan 12 years ago
I think beings are ridiculous..who gives a crap who lands on the moon..there is more going on than someone landing on the moon..that's like traveling around the world on foot just to see a waterfall...and when you make that much of an effort I gurantee you are going to do more than look, like pumping coal into the moon..which will be a global effort and not done by any one party. Transport time..invest in coal, stocks are going up in 3 yrs really high.
Comment icon #48 Posted by orion144 12 years ago
It's good thing for the world! that china is planning a manned moon mission and landing !, for this will stimulate competition for all space fareing nation's to do more research and to try to get back to moon !,and be second to the earlier pioneer's the AMERICAN'S ,to again !landed another manned mission on the moon !,and then returned them safely to earth !,the spin-off,of venture'slike this will help create greater developments in technology here on earth !,this can help the poor and sickly and suffering people of earth which is the greater portion of mankind that is suffering greatly right ... [More]
Comment icon #49 Posted by ROGER 12 years ago
And in an ideal World you may be right Orion. But!
Comment icon #50 Posted by AnVil 12 years ago
It's good thing for the world! that china is planning a manned moon mission and landing !, for this will stimulate competition for all space fareing nation's to do more research and to try to get back to moon !,and be second to the earlier pioneer's the AMERICAN'S ,to again !landed another manned mission on the moon !,and then returned them safely to earth !,the spin-off,of venture'slike this will help create greater developments in technology here on earth !,this can help the poor and sickly and suffering people of earth which is the greater portion of mankind that is suffering greatly right ... [More]
Comment icon #51 Posted by orion144 12 years ago
And in an ideal World you may be right Orion. But! start eating that yogurt right now roger !,HA ! just kidding !,but to get to that ideal world starts with what you got in your hands today !,and i dont mean the yogurt roger !.
Comment icon #52 Posted by ~C.S.M~ 12 years ago
and a waste of resource's ,human's has already been on the moon several times successfully !, ITS LIKE !, WHY WOULD ANYONE WANTS TO TRY ON REDISCOVERING THE AMERICAS AGAIN!,WHEN IT HAS ALREADY BEEN DISCOVERED TO THE REST OF THE WORLD ALREADY !,WHY RE-INVENT THE WHEEL AGAIN ?,FOR CRYING OUT LOUD !THEY SHOULD TAKE THE MONEY AND BUY SOME SENSE'S INSTEAD!, its very costly to go to space and even more ASTRONOMICALLY ! more costly to have a manned mission to go back to the moon ,its better if china use's her hard earned money and resources to help her citizens live on better wages and standards of l... [More]
Comment icon #53 Posted by ~C.S.M~ 12 years ago
And in an ideal World you may be right Orion. But! In a ideal world, we would already have cities on mars.
Comment icon #54 Posted by ~C.S.M~ 12 years ago
dont know what to say, was drunk when I wrote the two previous comments. PLZ accept my apologies everybody.
Comment icon #55 Posted by DONTEATUS 12 years ago
In an Ideal world we would have the Ideal World, one with Peace,Exploration,Positive Human Growth throughout the Universe`s But just maybe we still learning our way?
Comment icon #56 Posted by orion144 12 years ago
YEA ! PULL OVER C.S.M !,obviously your taking me out of context partner !,i will pasted a portion of my previous comment on 2/11/12 about the chinese moon program again ! , here it is again and get rid of the moon shine ! will ya !.(It's good thing for the world! that china is planning a manned moon mission and landing !, for this will stimulate competition for all space fareing nation's to do more research and to try to get back to moon !,and be second to the earlier pioneer's the AMERICAN'S ,to again !landed another manned mission on the moon !,and then returned them safely to earth !,the sp... [More]
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