NASA Director Bill Nelson will visit Japan in February next year and hope to sign a cooperation framework agreement with Japan on the "Artemis Plan" led by the United States to return to the moon.
NASA Director’s Letter of War to China
For this reason, he recently claimed in an interview with Japanese media that the United States has a de facto competitive relationship with China in the manned moon landing program, and the United States is expected to achieve manned moon landing again around 2025, thereby "beating China" in this field.
Nelson also criticized China, saying that China's "space policy has always been secretive", and he was "disappointed" by this. "We believe that civil space plans should be open and transparent. If an emergency occurs, we should... help each other. China just doesn't want to disclose their space plans."
This is really interesting. Didn't the United States land on the moon as early as possible? Why did it still defeat China? In addition, it is the United States that legally stipulates that it does not cooperate with China, so how can we help each other cooperate? This is just telling jokes!
Nelson had published an article before, hyping between the lines that "Chinese people want to monopolize the moon." He claimed that the United States faces a new space race and its opponent is China. We are very worried now that the Chinese are landing on the moon and announce to the world that "this is ours, don't come." In addition, he also hinted in various speeches, interviews and meetings that China would "exclusively occupy the moon."
It can be said that the United States has listed China as its core competitive target in the aerospace field.
China's unintentional space race
As Chinese aerodynamicist and aerospace technology expert Huang Zhicheng said, the United States' return to moon plan is mainly to maintain the United States' hegemony on the moon in the future. But in fact, this plan has great difficulties both technically and economically, so the United States wants to use the US-Soviet space race to China.
Huang Zhicheng said that China has no intention of launching a space race with any country. China's manned space program is always open to the international community. They will carry out manned moon landing plans according to their needs, drive the development of innovative technologies, and make their due contributions to all mankind.
In fact, China's development in the aerospace field has never been affected by the United States. China's aerospace technology is implemented with decades as a node.
China's aerospace development has two stages. One is the 921 project , which was implemented in 1992. In 1992, the state approved the implementation of my country's manned space flight project according to the "three-step" development strategy. How to go three steps? 27 years ago, we had already formulated a development plan.
The first step is to launch manned spacecraft , build a preliminary supporting experimental manned spacecraft project, and carry out space application experiments. The second step is to break through the rendezvous and docking technology of manned spacecraft and space vehicle after the first manned spacecraft is successfully launched, and use manned spacecraft technology to modify and launch a space laboratory to solve the problem of space application with a certain scale and short-term care. The third step is to build a manned space station to solve the problem of large-scale and long-term human-care space application.
In fact, China's aerospace development plan for the past 30 years has been carried out on this route. It has never been said that like the Soviet Union, in order to compete with the United States, it hastily launched any space plan .
969 Americans took the lead in landing on the moon, gaining an advantage.The Soviet Union must respond. In April 1971, the Soviet Union successfully launched the world's first real space station, 'Salute 1', and soon sent the Soyuz 10 spacecraft to carry three astronauts to this space station. In fact, at this time, the Soviet Union's manned spacecraft still had many flaws, but in order to fight back against the United States, the Soviet Union ignored the opinions of domestic experts and insisted on carrying out the mission, which eventually led to the death of three astronauts in space. This is also the only human space accident in space history.
But China is different. All the space plans of China over the past 30 years have been implemented around the 921 project and are not affected by the outside world. The successful launch of Shenzhou 15 basically marks the successful completion of China's 921 project.
China has started the next node mission
At this time, China's aerospace development ushered in the next node. China has planned a space plan for the next 10-15 years, mainly divided into four parts. The first is lunar exploration; the second is asteroid exploration or impact; the third is planetary exploration; the fourth is launching the heavy launch vehicle , which will increase the thrust of our current rocket by about 4 times, and prepare for the large-scale transportation of manned landing on Mars , landing on the moon and near-Earth space.
. On manned moon landing, China has also made plans. The fourth phase of lunar exploration is the basic type of Chang'e-7 and Chang'e-8 on the moon to build an lunar scientific research station on the moon. This basic model includes a lander, lunar rover, , and leaper. There is also an orbiter on the track, so you can observe there at any time. The lever must take off from the moon, and it can take off multiple times. Then a manned lunar landing mission will be carried out. This time is 2030, and during this process, a lunar space station will be built. After completing the manned lunar landing mission, China will continue to expand its lunar scientific research stations to solve energy problems, transportation problems, communication problems, and human life support systems.
It can be said that China's space program is very transparent, and any time node is clearly stated. Whether it is the space station project, the deep space exploration project, the lunar and fire exploration project, we have explained the development plan in detail in the aerospace white paper, and we have even invited foreign journalists to visit our launch mission site many times.
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The reason why the United States accuses us like this is because China's aerospace has achieved too many achievements in the past few decades. The United States is worried about the future, and China surpasses the United States in future aerospace exploration. That's why we have been targeting China.
NASA Director’s letter of war to us, we will not care. China will not rashly carry out the moon landing mission to compete with the United States. If the United States wants to land on the moon, you can land on it. No matter whether the Americans land on the moon in 2025, 2035, or even 2023, it will not affect our rhythm and have nothing to do with us. Anyway, our moon landing time has been planned.
This is also why Huang Zhicheng said that China has no intention of space competitions and is just carrying out space missions according to its own needs.
