China Aims to Put Man on Moon by 2020
China Aims to Put Man on Moon by 2020
By Min Lee
Associated Press
posted: 27 November 2005
09:35 am ET
HONG KONG (AP) – Budget permitting, China wants to be able to put a man on the moon and build a space station in 15 years, a space program official said Sunday.
“I think about 10 to 15 years later, we will have the ability to build our own space station and to carry out a manned moon landing,'' Hu Shixiang, deputy commander in chief of China's manned space flight program, said in Hong Kong.
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