Posted on 01/04/2022 11:57:02 AM PST by elpadre
China and Russia plan to set up a joint moon base by 2027, eight years earlier than originally planned. The joint moon base, called the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), will be a complex of experimental research facilities designed for multiple scientific activities, such as moon exploration, moon-based observation, research experiments and technology verification.
China is planning to launch the Chang’e 8 lunar exploration mission as the first step in establishing the ILRS. The mission is expected to test technology for using local resources and manufacturing with 3D printing.
Presently, China’s lunar presence includes the Chang’e 4 lander and the Yutu 2 rover, whose arrival in 2019 marked humanity’s first landings on the dark side of the moon. Both lunar craft are performing scientific experiments, with Chang’e 4 conducting a lunar biosphere experiment to see how silkworms, potatoes and Arabidopsis (a small flowering plant) seeds grow in lunar gravity, while the Yutu 2 rover is exploring the Von Kármán crater.
China and Russia’s joint moon base plans can be seen as a response to their exclusion from the US Artemis Accords, which aims to establish principles, guidelines and best practices for space exploration for the US and its partners. Its goal is to advance the Artemis Program, the name for US efforts to place itself as the first nation to establish a long-term lunar presence.
China is barred from participating in joint projects with the US in space by the Wolf Amendment, a 2011 measure prohibiting NASA from cooperating with China without special approval from Congress.
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Axis of Evil
and more:
“.... Russia has refused to sign the Artemis Accords, stating that it is too US-centric in its current form. Despite Russia’s refusal to sign the Artemis Accords, Russia-US space cooperation remains one of the few areas of constructive engagement between the two countries.
One of Russia’s significant contributions to the ISS is the Zvezda service module, which provides station living quarters, life support systems, electrical power distribution, data processing systems, flight control systems and propulsion systems.
It also provides a docking port for Russian Soyuz and Progress spacecraft. Despite this cooperation, Russia has threatened to pull out of the ISS in 2025 unless the US lifts sanctions on Russia’s space sector. ...”
The US is more concerned with what race or gender we send into space. These guys want to grab resources. We will be sucking the rear teat by 2030.
“Diversity is our strength”…
Pot is legalized, and “joint bases” start turning up everywhere? Even on the moon?
It’s reefer madness out there.
Sort of puts Trump’s creation of the Space Force in a different light, doesn’t it?
Had a college history/civics prof 40 years ago who would mimic huffing on a joint every time he mentioned ‘Joint Session of Congress’. The entire class would huff along also.
Yeah, screwing with our satellite, that impacts our entire planet, for no good reason is a good idea.
Or by their Biblical names, Magog (Russia) and Chittim (China), or Kittim in some places, since it’s believed that the Kittim who settled in Cyprus (Genesis 10:4-5) later settled in Eurasia and into China by the time Isaiah 23:1 calls them “Chittim”.
Been there, done that.
What's evil about it?
NATO and the West’s woke globalists are pushing Russia into an alliance with China.
Its sheer stupidity.
Years ago on Coast to Coast AM it was reported that the US abandoned moon missions because aliens were building military bases on the “dark side” of the moon. The aliens told Americans to get out and not come back. They then will launch an invasion of Earth.
Chia and Russia are toying with a war of the worlds.
It must be true it was on Coast to Coast.
There is no dark side of the moon, really, matter of fact, it's all dark.
Betamax Vs. VHS
(we’re betamax)
So, who is Gog?
Is Russia going to trust China with its technology?
Are they that stupid?
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