China To Attempt First Moon Landing -- The TelegraphChina will next year attempt to land an exploratory craft on the moon for the first time, state media reported, in the latest project in its ambitious space programme.
China's third lunar probe will blast off in the second half of 2013, the state Xinhua news agency reported late on Monday. Other reports said it would land and transmit back a survey of the moon's surface.
If successful, the landing would be China's first on the lunar surface and mark a new milestone in its space development. It is part of a project to orbit, land on and return from the moon, Xinhua said.
China said in its last white paper on space it was working towards landing a man on the moon, although it has not given a time frame.
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My Comment: They are being aggressive in their space program .... reminds me of what NASA was like 40 years ago.
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