Yesterday (April 24), the press conference of the Shenzhou-18 manned mission was held at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The crew of the Shenzhou-18 manned spacecraft, the three astronauts, also made a collective appearance yesterday. Yesterday, the China National Space Administration also announced the latest progress of the lunar exploration program. What will the future International Lunar Research Station look like? Here's a sneak peek at it through a short video.
As you can see from the concept video of the International Lunar Research Station, the International Lunar Research Station has a variety of functions, which is very exciting. Then why should we build an international lunar research station? How should we build it? Let's listen to what the chief designer of the lunar exploration project has to say.
The International Lunar Research Station is a comprehensive scientific experiment base that can carry out multidisciplinary and multi-objective scientific research activities such as the exploration and utilization of the moon itself on the surface of the moon or in the lunar orbit, and operate independently for a long time. With the continuous accumulation of China's deep space exploration technology and experience, we have also developed research directions for deep space and international lunar research stations.
Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program: In the past, we were able to reach the moon, but now we mainly want to go to it to carry out scientific experiments; we used to go to a certain point, but now we may have to explore a large area and explore in depth; in the past, we were all led by the government, but now we have begun to change to the government's traction and commercial aerospace actively participate; and many national organizations have joined forces to carry out exploration.
Wu Weiren introduced that the international lunar scientific research station will be implemented in two stages, the first step is the basic construction stage, before 2035, with the south pole of the moon as the core, to build a comprehensive scientific facility with basically complete functions and basic supporting elements. The second step is the expansion construction stage, by 2045, with the lunar orbit station as the hub, the equipment and facilities with complete functions, considerable scale and stable operation will be built.
Wu Weiren, Chief Designer of China's Lunar Exploration Program: The Moon is a starting point, and the International Lunar Research Station will provide a long-term scientific research for mankind to go farther into deep space in the future, so that they can work and live on it for a long time. In order to go to Mars in the future and go to deeper space, we will make technical reserves, material and intellectual reserves.
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