China has started assembly of their Moon rocket, with an unmanned orbiter scheduled to take a trip around Moon in 2007. <\/p>\n
Speaking to the Xinhua News Agency, Luan Enjie \u2013 commander of the Chang\u2019e 1 Lunar Orbiter \u201cRound the Moon\u201d project \u2013 noted the Moon rocket is being assembled and tested, with the new launch facility and mission control currently taking shape. Still inexperienced, China only this year conducted their second manned space flight on Shenzhou VI. Their Moon rocket is a larger, more powerful, version of the Shenzhou, with the 2007 test flight following the same historical procedure as the Americans carried out with their Apollo program in the 1960s.<\/font> <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n However, a projected date for a manned mission to the Moon remains locked inside the secretive nation, with officials sticking to their previous claim of \u2018before 2020\u2019 as their scheduled target. The United States is currently aiming for their second series of manned missions to the Moon in 2018.<\/font> <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n The States has the edge on what is becoming a four-way \u2018space race\u2019 \u2013 alongside China, Russia and Japan \u2013 due to their previous Apollo experience, with their new phase of exploration incorporating much of the ground work and knowledge gained from the 1960s and early 70s, in which they undertook six manned missions to the Moon \u2013 still the only nation on Earth to land a man on the Moon.<\/font><\/p>\n The Chinese admit they\u2019ve already run into problems \u2013 albeit whilst claiming they\u2019ve now found several solutions to their technical issues.<\/font><\/p>\n \u2018Our technical staff have solved many crucial technical problems by attacking technological focal points, assembling systems and conducting a range of experiments,\u2019 an official was quoted by Xinhua.<\/font><\/p>\n One United Space Alliance engineer, who worked on the Apollo project, believes China is blowing \u2018hot air\u2019 over their ambitions, using the project as \u2018propaganda\u2019 for its people, as the country advances its commerical power on the world\u2019s marketplace.<\/font><\/p>\n Technology News (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n \u2018If they think they can advance from their first man in space in 2003 \u2013 and to date just two manned space flights \u2013 to a manned mission to the Moon that competes with the planned US timeline, then they are in for some surprises,\u2019 the engineer \u2013 who asked not to be named in this article \u2013 said.<\/font><\/p>\n \u2018The United States pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into our Apollo project \u2013 and that was back in the 60s. Add in the good fortune we had with the Saturn V, the brilliance of thousands of engineers and scientists, plus the pure bravery of the astronauts, well it\u2019s my opinion that China is trying to create a level of national pride in having ambitious targets \u2013 but that does not gain you experience and without everything coming together, and that does not gain you a manned Moon mission.\u2019<\/font><\/p>\n Meanwhile, China is aiming for its third manned space flight in 2007, with a five day orbit being used to further test their Shenzhou launch system.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" China has started assembly of their Moon rocket, with an unmanned orbiter scheduled to take a trip around Moon in 2007. Speaking to the Xinhua News Agency, Luan Enjie \u2013 commander of the Chang\u2019e 1 Lunar Orbiter \u201cRound the Moon\u201d project \u2013 noted the Moon rocket is being assembled and tested, with the new launch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChina, who have made it no secret that they wish to beat the United States to becoming the first humans on Mars, are throwing vast amounts of money into their exploration program. They begun Moon mission projects in 2004. <\/font> <\/p>\n