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and China will do it

>China began to reveal a possible acceleration of its Moon plans in November 2018, when it revealed a new 5-meter diameter manned SLV with a three parallel booster configuration, like the 63-ton to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
>Then, in September 2020, an official subordinate to the Armaments Department of the Central Military Commission of the People’s Liberation Army, which controls China’s space program, officially confirmed for the fist time that China had an active manned Moon program, and was developing a new manned Moon Lander, and the new manned SLV. This is the 921 Rocket designed to loft about 70 tons to LEO, and about 25 tons to the Moon.
>The interest and attention paid to this new rocket caused some Chinese observers to speculate that the Long March-9 program has possibly been abandoned. But this was put to rest by a Nov. 26, 2020 report in China Daily that stated, “China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp [CASC] has estimated that about 10 Long March 9s will be needed each year from 2030 to 2035 in China to serve the nation’s robust demand for heavy-lift rockets.”
>This means that the Chinese regime may be planning to build 60 of its Long March-9 super heavy space launch vehicles (SLVs) over a period of six years. This has huge implications for China’s ambitions to build a dominant presence on the Moon and to begin colonizing Mars.
>China Daily also stated, “The super-heavy rocket will be 93 meters tall, have a liftoff weight of 4,140 metric tons, and a thrust power of 5,760 tons. Its core stage will be about 10 meters in diameter … will be able to transport spacecraft with a combined weight of 140 tons to a low-Earth orbit … will also be able to place spaceships weighing up to 50 tons in an Earth-Moon transfer trajectory for lunar expeditions.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/is-china-preparing-to-blitz-the-moon_3681848.html

>NASA hasn`t stopped being incopetent.
>SpaceX is taking too long

B-bros, looks like China is going to make it before USA...

>>12645457
>Do you think we'll have humans back on the moon by 2040?
Of course.
China is not stopped by the democrats.

>>12591962
>Imagine the timeline right now where they just don't have SpaceX.

This baby is ready to go
https://youtu.be/QRQaYYBdMoY

Biden Advisers Urge Working With China in Space
>Despite reports of massive Chinese espionage campaigns, intellectual property theft, forced technology transfer, and being a military and economic rival, Joe Biden's space advisers want him to work with China on exploration.
>"Trying to exclude them I think is a failing strategy," Biden's NASA transition team member Pam Melroy, a former astronaut, told Politico before the election. "It's very important that we engage."
>"My concern is not that China is going places, but that our partners are going to China," ex-NASA administrator and astronaut Charles Bolden told Politico. "We seem to be satisfied to allow them to go off and build their own space station.
>"That's short sighted," the former Obama administration official continued, adding, "It's not the mark of a good leader."
>It is not surprising a former Obama official and Biden supporters seek a working space relationship with China.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/space-exploration-espionage-rival/2020/12/20/id/1002387/

Finally America will follow China`s leadership and make some progress in space exploration. Commendable.

https://youtu.be/BsYApf1LBcE

Impressive.

With this most recent achievement, fate has, in a single stroke, marked the decline of the west and spelled a new era of wondrous prosperity and peaceful global dominance for the Chinese dragon, which promises to firmly stand in sharp contrast to the historically bloody ascent of western powers and the cruel subjugation it brought to the humbler nations of the world. The blessings of Chinese space technology, AI robotics, quantum direct-current electricity, space habitats, gamma titanium mono crystal turbines, unmanned autonomous A.I. spaceships, and space colonies will be the instruments with which China affirms its noble stewardship of 21st century world politics and offers the non-western world a different option; an humanist alternative to the depredations of Western leadership and the opportunity for a more equitable and dignified multilateralism.