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Q: When will China go to the moon?
Purely in terms of the Chinese lunar plans, when do they realistically aim to land on the moon?
11 years 37 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
According to most sources the plan is sometime between 2020 and 2025.
well if they do go there by 2025 then i imagine a KFC will open there by 2026
I have no idea whatsoever, but do me a favour; when they do go, ask them to take Pogger with them, that guy sends me to sleep.
They already went, LONG before the US set foot on the moon. Her name is Chang'e...
When me and
mArtiAn
go there first.....................................LOL
...and as soon as they get there they will proclaim to the world that they were the first ...selecting to absolutely ignore previous space missions. History will be rewritten again at that time and all text books changed overnight.
Createach:
Who?!!!!!.....Us?!!!!.......we do it cool..........arrive to the moon and pop up a bottle of champagne............LOL
Not any time soon. The country seems to be firmly rooted to the earth by gravity.
The Americans landing was faked, so China can do that also. Watch for Jackie Chan and Jet Li as astronauts. If you ever saw Alternative 3 TV show (search wiki), then you know that Chinese are probably on the moon base now.
Can't do it every day
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I just consider the aspect of fuel, I don't comment on other technical aspect. Rocket engines did not fundamentally changed since the 60's ie. about the same performances. What improved over time was the cost to build rockets, not the rockets performances.
Want to send people on the Moon ? You have to send people with life support and lots of gears and stuffs. You have to bring back those people home too. You are going to need a *much* bigger spaceship. Again, I just consider the fuel aspect, it's valid even if you assume miracle materials.
- If you go for the "all-in-one spaceship" approach (aka Single Stage To Orbit solution), you need a big rocket. To give an idea, the Apollo missions required the development of the Saturn V rockets, the most powerful rocket ever flown. So far, the Long March rockets family is very far from the Saturn V in term of weight they can send into low orbit. If such a rocket is under design, it would be tested before the first flight. No such test flight so far.
* If you go for the "assemble the big spaceship on orbit" approach, you can work with smaller, existing rockets. But then, you need several launch, which is costly, especially if your first missions are just tests missions (like Lunar fligh-by). So far, no such spaceship is under construction. And no, the current Chinese space station is not suitable as it is now.
So, unless they have a Saturn V class rocket, approach A is not going to happen. No sign of approach B, ie. assembling a space-ship in several launch. And not it can be done secretly, anything in orbit is highly visible. Going on the Moon is doable, but it's super super expensive and it's a highly visible activity. They might go to the Moon if they are willing to pay for it. Moon is going to be lifeless for the next 10 years.
Red_Fox:
Awesome post, my man! How do you know so much about rockets? I mean, it's really great reading! Like watching Star Trek reading your stuff! Thumbs up, Doc.
DrMonkey:
Ha ha, thanks ^^ Since I'm a kid, I've been interested about science in general. I read a lot about history of science and engineering, lots of epic and crazy stories with colorful people. In the end, I became a scientist. Yup, nerd to the core :p
Scandinavian:
The Long March 9 will have about the same payload capacities as Saturn V, both for low earth orbit and for lunar orbit.
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_09_30_2013_p22-620995.xml
Of course, it's just a design, not an actual rocket yet. Saturn V is still the biggest mofo of rockets.
Saturn V - can u say bad ass ? 
The Saturn V rocket’s first stage carries 203,400 gallons (770,000 liters) of kerosene fuel and 318,000 gallons (1.2 million liters) of liquid oxygen needed for combustion. At liftoff, the stage’s five F-1 rocket engines ignite and produce 7.5 million pounds of thrust.
http://www.space.com/18422-apollo-saturn-v-moon-rocket-nasa-infographic....
* bonus points to anyone who knows how it got the name 'Saturn'.
diverdude1:
The preceding generation of rockets developed by NASA were named Jupiter, Saturn follows Jupiter. Nothing tricky about it, just logical thinking. Remember, NASA is basically where the 'Engineers of the World Unite'!
