{"id":554,"date":"2025-10-22T01:32:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.sciencepicker.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2025-10-22T01:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:32:34","slug":"moon-landing-on-china-to-launch-a-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/moon-landing-on-china-to-launch-a-space-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon landing by China to launch a new space race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was Jan 2 when China landed on the moon and became the third country to land a probe on Moon. Most important thing was landing on the far side of the moon which is often called \u201cthe dark side of the moon\u201d. Landing on the far side of the moon is really an achievement which has not been achieved by any of the countries like Russia or even United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The change 4<\/strong> is the symbol of growth for the space program of China<\/strong>. This space program has amassed significant for China<\/strong> to come forward as a great power across the world.  With this achievement, consequences extended right after this launch. Trump Administration accepted  global competition<\/strong> in space as well as the exploration.  We all know that historically there has been a cold war between major drivers of US and Russia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s achievement in space<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

People\u2019s Republic\nof China <\/strong>first\ngotengaged in space during the development of\nballistic missiles in the year 1950. China developed its own space program once\nthey received the help from Soviet Union. Some of the cultural revolutions<\/strong>\ndisrupted these early space programs<\/strong>. China<\/strong> launched its first\nsatellite in year 1970 followed by early human spaceflight<\/strong> which was kept on hold to pay\nattention on commercial satellite<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In year 1978, Deng\nXiaoping <\/strong>articulated China\u2019s<\/strong>\nexisting space policy and mentioned that being a developing country, China is\nnot going to take part in any space race. Instead of this race they kept their\nefforts focused on launching the vehicles and commercial satellites<\/strong> for\nbetter communications and remote sensing or meteorology<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But still, China<\/strong> was not out of the race of becoming global power in space. Sooner, in year 1992 they realized that having a space station will add a prestigious tag in coming century. So, they re- established the human spaceflight program<\/strong> and developed the Shenzhou spacecraft<\/strong>. China has launched six Shenzhou Missions<\/strong> in total, and sent 12 taikonauts in the lower earth orbit<\/strong>. These plans included two for China\u2019s first station, Tiangong -1<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New global space race<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As compared to the\nearly American and Russian program<\/strong>, China started a slow paced but\nsteady program. Because of complete secrecy, the exact capabilities are\nunknown. China <\/strong>created a mark in the field of military application as in\nyear 2007, they undertook a test for anti-satellite<\/strong>. This was completely\nsuccessful and created a threat for other satellites due to cloud of orbital\ndebris. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to this, NASA helped China to rescue its stranded astronaut. Well, even if this is a global race for leading the advancement in technology, as we have seen in first race, this knowledge and greater capacity for space exploration can also be beneficial for humanity. This is going to add to our knowledge about our universe where we all live. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was Jan 2 when China landed on the moon and became the third country to land a probe on Moon. Most important thing was landing on the far side of the moon which is often called \u201cthe dark side of the moon\u201d. Landing on the far side of the moon is really an achievement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-and-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}