CASC Shows Multi-Launch Concept For Manned Moon Mission

Credit: Moon: Gregory H. Revera
BEIJING—Assembling a spacecraft in space appears to be a continuing option for China’s proposed manned lunar missions, one that would avoid the need to build an enormous Moon rocket. Three launches would be required for one mission, according to a plan that China’s major space program supplier, CASC...
Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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