50 years after the US moon landing, China is catching up in the space race
The fierce space race between the United States and the Soviet Union had left behind Beijing, which launched its first manned space flight in 2003, more than 40 years after NASA's achievement.But in recent decades, as China has grown richer and more powerful, its space program has accelerated.Buoyed by billions of dollars in government investment, Beijing has fired space labs and satellites into orbit and even become the first country to send an unmanned rover to the far side of the moon.
In a statement, China's National Space Administration said the landing"opened a new chapter in humanity's exploration of the moon." It also showed just how far Chinese space technology had come. A guide wearing a spacesuit puts on a helmet at"Mars Base 1", a C-Space Project, in the Gobi desert, some 40 kilometres from Jinchang in China's northwest Gansu province on April 17.
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