Humans On The Moon By 2030

Submitted by: aka.attrition

Source: Zerohedge

China To Put Humans On The Moon By 2030

Weeks after Russia’s former head of the Roscomsmos space agency cast doubt on the US moon landing in 1969, China announced plans to put a person on the moon by 2030.

In a Monday announcement, Lin Xiqiang, the deputy director of China’s Manned Space Agency, said that the CCP’s moon landing project – part of the country’s broader Lunar Exploration Project (Chang’e Project, named after the Chinese moon goddess) – had only “recently” been kick started. The project seeks to eventually enable short-term stays on the lunar surface, as along with the collection of samples and other research, The NY Times reports.

Chinese scientists have previously nodded at a 2030 goal in a less formal capacity; for example, the chief designer of China’s lunar exploration program said last month that a 2030 landing would be “no problem.”

The Monday announcement came at a news conference to mark the liftoff of three new astronauts on Tuesday to China’s new space station, which was completed late last year.

A manned lunar landing would be a major milestone for China’s, and the world’s, space exploration: No human has been on the moon since the United States’ Apollo missions in the 1960s and ’70s. And it could mark a significant achievement for China in its burgeoning competition with the United States in space. China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, has said that the country should become a “great space power.”

The announcement follows one by NASA, which announced a plan to put a team on the moon by 2025 as part of the (repeatedly delayed) Artemis program.

A painting of a prospective future lunar colony by artist Rick Guidice for NASA

Both Beijing and Washington want to build research stations on the moon, and to land people on Mars.

The Times frames the announcement as a point of contention between the US and China, echoing the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

NASA’s administrator, Bill Nelson, has said that the United States should “watch out” for Chinese attempts to dominate the lunar surface and keep Americans out. A Pentagon report last year warned that China could overtake American capabilities in space by 2045. -NY Times

China has accelerated its space program in recent years, and is currently the only country (known) to have landed anything on the moon in the 21st century. The CCP also landed a lunar probe on the moon’s far side for the first time in history in 2019.

If the moon is next for humans, it might be a good time to bone up on your Heinlein.

Careful, China. You never know what’s up there!

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Euddie
Euddie
May 30, 2023 12:51 pm

Ah, honarable moonranding scam, come to China.
Beijingwood opens new studio: carred Rookout Jade Mountain, in Raurer Canyon, Beijing.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
May 30, 2023 1:15 pm

US’ Artemis mission is supposed to go “back” to the moon in 2025. It might be better to see whether we can still build, say, a refrigerator in this country first.

Ginger
Ginger
  Iska Waran
May 30, 2023 1:45 pm

Ronco is on it, they had such a great success with The Pocket Fisherman. Just be careful extracting from pocket when using those lures with the treble hooks.

Euddie
Euddie
  Ginger
May 30, 2023 2:08 pm

Loved the ronco Pocket Fisherman commercials!

The Pocket Rocketman needs no inventing.

Euddie
Euddie
  Iska Waran
May 30, 2023 2:47 pm

Artemis: Goddess of nature, childbirth, wildlife, the hunt, sudden death, animals, virginity, young women, and archery

Doesn’t check many of the required boxes.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Iska Waran
May 30, 2023 5:35 pm

Originally it was 2024. I have been following it very closely since the announcement.

They will not go. I don’t personally believe it is possible, but that won’t be their excuse. It will simply be pushed back in perpetuity while the cash machine whirs.

Stay tuned…

YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe
May 30, 2023 2:15 pm
Long Time Lurker
Long Time Lurker
  YourAverageJoe
May 30, 2023 3:12 pm

We get it. you are a believer.
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KJ
KJ
  YourAverageJoe
May 30, 2023 9:19 pm

I knew you’d chime in, Moonbat Joe.

Vigilant
Vigilant
May 30, 2023 2:18 pm

Good luck trying to land on plasma, according to a 1953 government school textbook.

If the moon is a spherical-shaped rock that has a dark side, at daytime why can I clearly see the blue sky where the dark side of the moon is supposed to be? Why isn’t the dark side blocking my view of the blue sky & clouds? A sphere is a sphere is a sphere, right? I’m being serious here, and serious questions concerning the moon tend to invite gaslighting, bc gaslighting is easier than thinking and reasoning and giving a logical answer.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Vigilant
May 30, 2023 2:20 pm

If the moon is a spherical-shaped rock that has a dark side, at daytime why can I clearly see the blue sky where the dark side of the moon is supposed to be?

Really?

Bob P
Bob P
  Vigilant
May 30, 2023 2:32 pm
Vigilant
Vigilant
  Bob P
May 30, 2023 7:06 pm

Thank you for the respectful reply, I’ll visit your link.

Vigilant
Vigilant
  Bob P
May 30, 2023 7:25 pm

Quote from article:

“Just because we can’t see the far side of the moon from Earth doesn’t mean we don’t know what it looks like. We have several photos sent back from lunar missions.”

Same narrative: we landed on the moon. No proofs in the article, only speculation.

Euddie
Euddie
  Vigilant
May 30, 2023 2:39 pm

“why can I clearly see the blue sky where the dark side of the moon is supposed to be?”
“I’m being serious here, and serious questions concerning the moon tend to invite ‘gaslighting’

Milk thru nose brilliant!

The reason you can see blue sky “through” the dark side of the moom is lensing of the earth’s atmosphere. It is an optical delusion.

[What, Me Gaslight?]

Vigilant
Vigilant
  Vigilant
May 30, 2023 7:05 pm

3 moon landing believers so far…

I’m challenging the official narrative, which doesn’t match reality. If the moon is a rocky ball, then we shouldn’t be able to see through it.

old dog
old dog
May 30, 2023 2:40 pm

May I suggest we send congress, fbi, doj, dod, cia, tsa, hls, big pharma exec’s and international bankers along with the great reset crew attending all these summits to tidy up the surface for us first. It may be their last chance to work for a real living and make a difference at the same time.

flash
flash
May 30, 2023 7:25 pm

ha ha ha… the moon is a flat hologram just like earf and we’re all simulations in a fake and gay matrix. …reeee

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Two if by sea.
Two if by sea.
May 30, 2023 8:03 pm

Hey Rocky. Watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat…

Fatman from Oz
Fatman from Oz
May 31, 2023 12:20 am

I believe the plan will be for a state actor(China) to call out the USofA moonlanding bullshit. Chinese will say “we tried but going to the moon is not possible at this stage”. Could the USofA show us how it is done.

J Far
J Far
  Fatman from Oz
May 31, 2023 9:56 am

I have to say, that is an intriguing idea.

J Far
J Far
May 31, 2023 9:55 am

It is so not happening.