As part of its project of landing space exploration crews on the moon, China should establish a space station in lunar orbit rather than one orbiting the earth, the father of China’s lunar mission said Wednesday in a meeting.
“It’s better to build the space station in moon orbit so the future moon landing would not be as difficult as the former Apollo program,” said Ouyang Ziyuan, a Chinese Academy of Sciences academician and first chief scientist of China’s lunar probe project.
The Apollo program of the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon in 1969. The last U.S. pair of moon walkers was from the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972.
By Huang Yanhao and Cora Zhu
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