Beyond China! No, NASA signed another country on the return to the moon program - Greece, originally these two things had nothing to do with each other, but when foreign media explained the news, China was still involved.
What does it mean to say that the countries that are signatories to the Artemis Accords of the United States have surpassed the China-led International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) program? Can a list of signatories change the U.S. plan to return to the moon?
What's going on here? Let's take a look at it in detail, but I will first talk about this so-called signing issue, and then explain the issue of returning to the moon.
35 pcs! Foreign media: NASA signed an agreement to return to the moon to surpass China.
That's right, statistically, Greece became the 35th country signed by NASA, which is an important step in the U.S. plan to return to the moon.
Since the United States implemented the Apollo program, after more than 50 years, there has never been a manned mission to the moon again, so that many people are "confused" about the American moon landing, whether it can still be carried out?
However, in the process of carrying out the program in the United States, there have been delays again and again, which have made it more difficult to understand. Therefore, NASA can only sign more countries to support itself and see if it can change the current situation.
After Greece signed the agreement, according to statistics, 13 of the 22 member states of the European Space Agency and 12 of the 27 EU member states have joined.
So, this raises the groundwork for NASA's return to the moon, and NASA wants more funding under the agreement, even if these countries don't have the capacity to provide technical support.
However, the signing of these agreements by NASA itself has nothing to do with China, and as a result, when foreign media reported on it, they said that it surpassed China, saying that NASA already has 35 signatory countries, and the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) led by China, which has its own and undisclosed principles of participation, has only 8 countries joined ILRS, the most recent one is Egypt. So, it's kind of "mocking" in the same sense.
All I can say here is that NASA has always linked China's lunar missions to the U.S. program to return to the moon, but what?
China has also explained that China's manned lunar landing program has not competed with any other country, and China is carrying out it normally, hoping to contribute to global mankind, whether it is an international lunar scientific research station, or a single project of the Chang'e series, even if it is the Chinese space station that everyone sees, it is also open, and it is open and communicative.
On the contrary, if you look at the United States, it is "keeping China out" and has also made legal provisions. On the other hand, if China does not cooperate, it is really "indescribable". Therefore, NASA still does not understand the meaning of cooperation, but only thinks of confrontation.
It's just that then again, the U.S. program to return to the moon has also become a "joke", and its own project has not only been delayed, but even the implementation of the mission to "take the lead" for itself has failed, which makes many people wonder, what is going on, hasn't the United States already carried out the Apollo program?
The strength is so strong, but it won't work after 50 years, what is going on, let's discuss it below.
U.S. moon landing: why didn't it work?
True, the United States has not landed on the moon for a long time, and it seems that "moths" have appeared on all lunar missions.
Among them, the "Peregrine Falcon" is not only the first soft landing on the moon in 52 years by the United States, but also the first unmanned probe landing on the moon in NASA's commercial lunar payload service (CLPS) program. What everyone never expected was that a mission to the moon had already ended its fate before it reached the moon.
Less than 24 hours after the rover was launched, it had fuel leaks, solar panels and other problems, so in the end the mission had to be declared a failure, which once again increased everyone's concerns about the return of the United States to the moon.
Moreover, although this mission is a private moon landing, it is also an important lunar exploration mission led by NASA. At the same time, this problem is aside, and as a result, in 2024, NASA released another bombshell news, that is, its own Artemis program has also been fully delayed.
The Artemis 2 manned flight around the moon has been postponed until 2025, and the Artemis 3 lunar flight has been postponed until 2026 or later. This is not the first time that it has been postponed. Compared with the timetable originally given, the manned landing on the moon is at least two years late.
Therefore, whether the return of the United States to the moon will be delayed, which makes more doubts arise, what about the American moon landing: why not? In fact, in the end, it is two words - technology.
That's right, in the new round of lunar missions, the United States is still facing a lot of technical problems, which have not been solved at all, such as:
After the first, the first test mission in the United States, the re-entry capsule experienced excessive combustion, the exact cause of which is not yet known.
The second, U.S.-led version of the moonship has not yet been developed, because the starship has appeared in the first two tests. Therefore, it is still unknown how long it will be developed.
In addition to these, spacesuits, lunar rovers and other problems are still facing difficulties, and these various problems accumulate together, and the return of the United States to the moon is far away.
This is why many people say that China may have achieved a manned mission to the moon, but the United States has not yet fully implemented it. If U.S. technology is not fully advanced, it is indeed up to China to carry out a manned mission to the moon.
China's manned mission to the moon is progressing steadily.
According to China's plan, it is expected that in 2027, China's "Long March 10" rocket will carry a new generation of manned spacecraft for the first flight.
It is likely that this will be an unmanned flight around the moon similar to Artemis 1. Once this mission is fully advanced, China's next step will be to carry out a manned mission to the moon.
Moreover, China is to complete the manned landing on the moon before 2030, in terms of time, within 6 years the Chinese will go to the moon, and leave Chinese footprints on the moon, which is a proud thing.
Therefore, the steady progress of China's manned mission to the moon actually makes the United States very worried, and at the beginning of 2024, the United States even issued a "military order" to NASA, requiring that China must be defeated on the manned moon landing.
Here I can only say that as long as our country advances steadily according to its own plan, whether the United States can return to the moon or not is also a matter for the United States itself, and it has nothing to do with our country, as long as it is not disturbed.