The space race between companies and between countries continues unabated. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) wanted to send astronauts to the moon as early as 2025 as part of the Artemis missions.

A statement came today from China, which is competing with the US in the space race. China manned space agency, to the moon that they will send astronauts by 2030 officially announced.

A short stay on the lunar surface is planned.

Lin Xiqiang, one of the agency’s directors, announced today at a conference in Jiuquan city that the country’s goal is to send humans to the moon by 2030. Lunar surface in Xiqiang, China as he says he plans to stay for the short term, the mission is in a human-robot partnership. He added that it would be a discovery

With these movements of China, the relationship between the US and China space race it started to get warmer. Both countries have plans to establish colonies on the moon. With its current plans, China seems determined to catch up with its formidable rivals such as the US and Russia. Over the years, the country has accomplished successful tasks such as retrieving samples from the moon, Mars missions, and the Tiangong station.

Tiangong station will grow

In addition, China introduced the new crew that would be sent to the Tiangong Space Station. It will be sent to the station by Shenzou 16 vehicle on May 30. from 3 persons One of the crew members formed will be a civilian for the first time. That person will be Gui Haicho, a professor at one of the leading aviation institutes.

China also built the Tiangong station. want to expand also added. According to Lin Xiqiang’s statement a fourth modulewill be added at an “appropriate” time to promote the support of science experiments and provide better working and living conditions for the crew. The station would normally consist of 3 sections. The third and final module was launched into orbit in November 2022 and added to the station. However, today’s statement showed that Tiangong will grow even more.