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Under a Chinese moon? (Insider Report).(China prepares to become spacefaring society )(Brief Article)

The New American

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While the U.S. space program reels from the Columbia space shuttle disaster, Communist China slowly but steadily prepares to become only the third spacefaring society in human history. Beijing is planning a manned Chinese orbital mission for later this year and an unmanned lunar probe before 2005.

"We will be able to embark on a maiden unmanned mission within two and a half years if the government endorses the scheme now," comments Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of China's lunar exploration program. Current plans call for a three-stage lunar program: The first probe would orbit the moon; the second would land; and the ...

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