The Chinese want to build a military base on the Moon

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More like a science fiction movie script, but it's true - the Chinese government considers the project of transforming the Moon into a strategic base from which you can launch a missile attack on Earth. In addition, according to an expert from the National Space Administration of China, the natural satellite of our planet can also be used as a transit point to send spacecraft to other planets.

Such ambitious plans of the Celestial Empire, many journalists compared with the construction of the Death Star from the fictional universe of "Star Wars", but Chinese experts are not disposed to joke. China is actively developing new role of space superpowers: the country a few days ago launched the rocket «Long March-3B» spacecraft "Chane-3" on board. It takes the moon the first Chinese lunar rover «Jade Rabbit» (in trans. From English. - "Jade Rabbit"), and then return to Earth.



"Chane-3" was launched from the Baikonur Xichang located in the southwest of Sichuan Province, and after 112 o'clock flight entered orbit around the moon. According to calculations, December 14 "Jade Rabbit" prilunitsya crater Rainbow Bay and start a 90-day research mission, thus becoming the first since the Soviet "Lunokhod-2" managed device to satellites. The objectives of the "Rabbit" includes the study of lunar soil and exploration sites for the base, which is expected to be used in the preparation of expeditions for exploration of Mars.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping said the growth of scientific and technological potential of the country, as evidenced by the lunar mission "Chane-3", and said that was proud of the achievements of the Chinese people.

via factroom.ru

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