The competition in the conquest of the moon

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NASA had chosen a version of the StarShip in 2023 as the lunar lander to return Humans to the moon, but there are more missions apart from that and there are also many more loads to bring to the lunar surface because the objective is to create a lunar base there, the goal of the Artemis program.

Remember that the Artemis program, although the headlines always say NASA, is an international program, there is the European space agency, there is the Canadian space agency, the Japanese one, etc. and they all want to build a base on the Chinese moon, all of these missions From carrying astronauts, carrying equipment, carrying vehicles, etc., not only will StarShip be there, but Blue Origin will also be there.

Blue origin is Jeff Bezos' space company and has managed to get its lander into these future space missions. On November 19, NASA announced precisely that it was going to grant missions to these two future landers to take astronauts and cargo to the lunar surface.

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Competition is good, I think it is good that there is competition, it creates initiatives, the design of the StarShip is impossible, they are going to kill themselves directly, because it has an extremely high center of gravity and having to depend on a crane to lower the equipment It is complicated, I hope they make a flatter, lower design, with wider legs to have greater stability when landing on the moon, in any case we will have to see test missions of these ships without personnel, because of course there are You have to know if they can land well before trying them.

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China is also in this race and has published a video, it is in this race to conquer the moon, the one above is its lander that they are developing and this is an animation where we see how the lander would work. They are also developing a lunar vehicle .

China's first manned lunar mission is scheduled to take place between 2029 and 2030 and we will see taikonaut or Chinese astronauts, taikonaut is a term that an American journalist invented because of the press releases I have from China, they refer to their personnel as astronauts and I am in favor of choosing a term, we cannot be changing a term for each country, I don't know, bakers are bakers in any country in the world and bricklayers are bricklayers, we call bricklayers Anyone who is a bricklayer in any country in the world cannot go around changing the term astronaut for political or nationality reasons.

I am one of those who thinks that originally they should all be called cosmonauts because the Russians were the first, but in Europe and in the West we have stuck with the term astronaut, I don't know what you think.

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