China wants to join the USA in the race to the moon??
The "Chang'e I" lunar probe will be launched later this year aboard a Long March 3-A carrier rocket, Huang Chunping, the former head of rocket science at China's manned space program, told Xinhua news agency.
China is set to launch a probe to the moon that will make 3D images of the moon's landscape. China is hoping that this project will be one step towards achieving a goal of setting their own people on the moon.
However, China states that they are still 7 or 8 years away before they are even ready to launch the moon probe, and that setting foot on the moon may still be 15 years away.
Of course, what will China think if America all ready has a colony on the moon, and what will the U.S. reaction be to China joining them on the moon.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070306/sc_afp/chinaspacemoon;_ylt=AnNOJYdhy85N276MOhBjEfQPLBIF
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