The magicians spent six months at the space station. The stay is the longest in China’s manned flight program.
16.4. 16: 01 • Updated April 16. 16:33
The goal of China’s space program is to leave the footprint of magicians and the Chinese flag on the lunar crust in the next few years. According to current plans, the construction of a permanent base on the Moon will begin in 2029.
The goal took a long leap today, with three magic monkeys successfully landing in the Dongfeng Desert in Inner Mongolia. The magicians had been working at China’s Tiangong Space Station since October 2021.
During subsequent flights, the space station is to be equipped to orbit the earth at an altitude of about 400 kilometers for ten years. Shenzhou 13, which landed in Mongolia today, paves the way for a more permanent stay in space.
Mao looked at “the moon and beyond”
President Xi Jinping has invested heavily in China ‘s space program to catch up with the United States and Russia in space conquest.
China’s ambitious program was launched by the leaders of the great power Mao Zedong.
When the former Soviet Union began its Sputnik program in 1957, Mao declared that “China is also making satellites The first Long March rocket was launched a dozen years later, in 1970.
The manned space flight took place in 2003. The first Chinese to travel was a magician Yang Liwei.
Yang lingered on the first flight in space for 21 hours. Since then, China has had seven manned spaceflight on the Shenzhou 5 ship.
The Jadekani ATV fell silent and refreshed
China invested in lunar exploration in the 2010s. The Jadekani ATV surveyed the surface of the Moon in 2013 until the connection was disconnected to resume, with the device sending images to the earth for 31 months.
Chinese magonauts have conducted medical and botanical experiments in space. In 2016, the crews cultivated rice and other varieties in the Tiangong-2 space laboratory.
Towards the end of the last decade, China’s space program suffered setbacks and, among other things, the flight planned for exploration and the transmission of telecommunications satellites had to be canceled.
Studies also on the planet of war
Space projects gained new momentum in 2019, when China’s Chang’e-4 robot was the first in human history to land on the farthest side of the Moon, invisible to Earth. At the end of last year, an unmanned vessel brought samples of the Moon’s rocks and moon origin.
The next planet of interest for space powers, including China, is the red planet of the solar system, Mars. In February 2021, Tianwen-1 managed to send images from the surface of Mars.