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China announces plan to build moon station in 10 years
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- Beijing plans to send a manned mission to the moon and to build a research station there within the next decade.
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- Aim to space superpower status: China aims to achieve space superpower status and took a major step towards that goal when it became the first nation to land a rover on the far side of the moon in January.
- Scientific research station: It now plans to build a scientific research station on the moon’s south pole within the next 10 years.
- Chang’e-5 Mars probe: Beijing plans to launch fourth lunar probe- Chang’e-5 by the end of this year and a Mars probe by 2020.
- Space station- Tiangong or Heavenly Palace: China also announced that its Long March-5B rocket will make its maiden flight in the first half of 2020 which will carry the core parts of a planned space station-The Tiangong -or “Heavenly Palace” -will go into orbit in 2022.
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The Hindu