More partners join China’s International Lunar Research Station
China today announced the addition of three more international partners in its project to build a permanent base on the Moon, dubbed the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS).
The new partners of the ILRS include Nicaragua, the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization and the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences. China will collaborate with these three parties on various issues concerning the ILRS, including its demonstration, engineering implementation, operation and application, according to the CNSA.
China’s proejct now has ten partner nations (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, and Venezuela) and eleven academic or governmental bureaucracies.
If all goes as planned, China hopes to have the basic station established by 2030, which it will periodcially and intermittently send astronauts.
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China today announced the addition of three more international partners in its project to build a permanent base on the Moon, dubbed the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS).
The new partners of the ILRS include Nicaragua, the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization and the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences. China will collaborate with these three parties on various issues concerning the ILRS, including its demonstration, engineering implementation, operation and application, according to the CNSA.
China’s proejct now has ten partner nations (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, and Venezuela) and eleven academic or governmental bureaucracies.
If all goes as planned, China hopes to have the basic station established by 2030, which it will periodcially and intermittently send astronauts.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
After reading NASA Administrator Bill Nelson’s comments about China’s exploration of the “dark” far side of the moon, I wonder why anyone would want to cast their lot with us as opposed to affiliating with the Chinese program.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/space/2978857/nasa-administrator-no-idea-why-china-going-far-side-moon-always-dark/
Quoting Bob Dylan, from “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol”
“Ah, but you who philosophize disgrace
And criticize all fears
Bury the rag deep in your face
For now’s the time for your tears”
PS — Not to worry. Senator Nelson has
“… rich wealthy [contractors] who provide and protect him
And high office relations in the politics of [Delaware]
[Who] react to his [words] with a shrug of [their] shoulders”
Business as usual in Foggy Bottom.