[Brett66]

That was a good article. The Shenzhou V is comparable to an Apollo capsule. I even saw some pics of their future plans for a lunar lander. It's a Shenzhou with propellant tanks and landing gear attached to it. Their technology is already sufficient to go anywhere in cis-lunar space.

[Fitzcarraldo]

They will probably need to perform earth-orbit rendezvous to build up sufficient propulsion capability to get out to the moon, but I suspect Shenzhou-6 will be tasked with working out those techniques...

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...The planned Soviet Manned Lunar Lander was precisely the same thing as the new Communist Chinese Model, one man-one capsule.
In other words, Tinker-Toy Land.

...Our Apollo Program got 2 of us on the Moon first so the Soviets cancelled their 1 Man Mission.

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