These advancements in China’s reusable rocket and lunar exploration programs come as NASA prepares to launch a crew of four astronauts on a loop around the far side of the Moon as soon as next month.
China tests crewed spacecraft abort and rocket recovery in major lunar milestone China took a major step forward in its lunar ...
Both the Long March 10 carrier rocket and the Mengzhou spaceship are in the final stages of their research and development at CASC. They are among the key components of China's ambitious endeavor to ...
China has an orbital test for the Mengzhou spacecraft planned for later this year. There, it will launch on a Long March 10A with a single reusable first-stage booster, before docking with China's ...
There's a new space race going on, with the goal of putting humans back on the moon. China has now joined the race with some successful rocket tests.
China’s space program, aiming to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, conducted a test flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late Tuesday (US time), yielding spectacular results, AzerNEWS ...
The Long March 10 will also have a shorter variant without side boosters. This version will be 67 meters tall and have a ...
China’s Mengzhou is putting pressure on NASA’s lunar timeframe ...
The first manned moon mission since 1972 will launch next month. China, meanwhile, is struggling.
The Artemis II mission will merely orbit the moon and return—but it helps lay the groundwork for an eventually permanent return to its surface.