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December 28th, 2022
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China is purportedly moving forward on a new booster tied to the country’s human spaceflight plans for a piloted Moon landing.
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Recently speaking at a youth forum gathering, Wu Yansheng, chairman of the Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC) — China’s largest space contractor — said that the new rocket is codenamed “Rocket 921” and is to carry an orbiter vehicle with three persons on board and a two-member Moon lander.
Image credit: CCTV/Inside Outer Space screengrab
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Wu said that the Moon program launcher is likely to be ready for flight by 2027, as reported by the South China Morning Post.
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