China plans its first crewed mission to Mars in 2033

[smp]

From Reuters.com:
"BEIJING, June 24 (Reuters) - China aims to send its first crewed mission to Mars in 2033, with regular follow-up flights to follow, under a long-term plan to build a permanently inhabited base on the Red Planet and extract its resources."

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerosp ... 021-06-24/

Good luck, and Godspeed!

smp

[GCoyote]

Which explains their push to have their own space station. They can run long duration experiments there to help decide how to go about the Mars project.

[bearnard00]

China has launched three astronauts into orbit to begin occupation of the country's new space station.
The three men - Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo - are to spend three months aboard the Tianhe module some 380km (236 miles) above the Earth.
It will be China's longest crewed space mission to date and the first in nearly five years.

[Unitron48]

Sounds pretty aggressive, but wish them all the best.

Dave

[helicon]

Sounds like they might even beat SpaceX to Mars.

[StarBru]

If the U.S. would have continued their space program with the same fervor after the Apollo missions, we would most likely had improved our technology to the point where a presence on Mars could have already been established. That being said, our presence in space and interplanetary would be accelerated if we pursued it together as a species and not as individual countries. If only!

[GCoyote]

Sounds like they might even beat SpaceX to Mars.

But they can still send Elon Musk right? I mean the whole point of the exercise is to get him off social media!

[helicon]

Sounds like they might even beat SpaceX to Mars.

But they can still send Elon Musk right? I mean the whole point of the exercise is to get him off social media!

Well, if he really wants to die on Mars as he has said, then he will be able to tweet about his final hours on the red planet.

[GCoyote]

I'm okay with that.

[Ozypic]

China aims to send its first crewed mission to Mars in 2033, with regular follow-up flights to follow, under a long-term plan to build a permanently inhabited base on the Red Planet
EXTRACT ITS RESOURSES ."
smp

Well if its Red Dust they want , we have heaps of it..?
Phill

[GCoyote]

China aims to send its first crewed mission to Mars in 2033, with regular follow-up flights to follow, under a long-term plan to build a permanently inhabited base on the Red Planet
EXTRACT ITS RESOURSES ."
smp

Well if its Red Dust they want , we have heaps of it..?
Phill

I sense a business opportunity rather like popular 'fruit flavored' beverages.

"Martian Red Premium Soil"
Grow plants that are out of this world!

Fine print: Contains less than 0.000000000000000000001% dust from Martian sources.
Fine Fine Print: Contents may have settled 50,000,000 km during shipping.

[bearnard00]

China aims to send its first crewed mission to Mars in 2033, with regular follow-up flights to follow, under a long-term plan to build a permanently inhabited base on the Red Planet
EXTRACT ITS RESOURSES ."
smp

Well if its Red Dust they want , we have heaps of it..?
Phill

I sense a business opportunity rather like popular 'fruit flavored' beverages.

"Martian Red Premium Soil"
Grow plants that are out of this world!

Fine print: Contains less than 0.000000000000000000001% dust from Martian sources.
Fine Fine Print: Contents may have settled 50,000,000 km during shipping.

Probably you are right. Despite those negative things we mentioned here about Chinese space exploration department, still, they are heading really fast towards new technology and new openings in space exploration.