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"Chang'e-6 has completed 30% of its journey home, and it is expected to return to Earth around June 25, after which it will be able to send samples of lunar soil to Earth, and then we will be open to foreign space agencies, and the United States can come and take samples if needed."
As Chang'e-6 began preparing to return to Earth from the moon, the deputy director of the China National Space Administration gave Chang'e-6 a "time to go home" and expressed "openness" to the United States.
As soon as this news was released, it attracted wide attention from the international aerospace community and soon triggered a heated discussion in the aerospace circle.
After all, Chang'e-6 not only landed on the moon this time, but also collected precious lunar soil samples from the far side of the moon, and once the samples are returned to Earth, they will provide new and important data for lunar scientific research around the world.
From this point of view, Chang'e-6 not only "did a good job and punished me for meritorious service" this time, but also "gave a big gift" to the world.
The United States has even begun to discuss the formation of a "team of Chang'e scientists" to take samples, but is there any other "mystery" besides "friendship between major powers"?
Why did the United States not only say that it did not want a competitor to go to the moon, but now it has begun to "extend an olive branch" to the mainland because the host is "not in a state"?
Chang'e is in the limelight, and the moon is coming again.
Since the successful launch of Chang'e-1, this series of Chang'e lunar exploration projects has been leading the world's highest technological level of lunar exploration, and it has also officially proved that the mainland has made an important breakthrough in unmanned probes.
Not only were the continent's probes able to successfully explore the moon in such a short period of time decades after the moon landing, but they were also able to achieve a very high degree of accuracy in the landing site.
When Chang'e-4 successfully landed on the far side of the moon, the mainland once again set a new record for unmanned probes used for lunar exploration, demonstrating the mainland's unique advantages in unmanned probe technology.
After the success of Chang'e-4, the mainland's lunar exploration program has entered the internal and external stages, represented by Chang'e-6.
The main mission of Chang'e-6 this time is to collect a large number of lunar soil samples from the far side of the moon, and once safely returned to Earth, these samples will provide valuable raw data for all scientific research on the planet.
The completion of this mission also achieved the arduous task of collecting lunar soil from the far side of the moon for the first time in human history.
At the press conference, the deputy director of the China National Space Administration also said that the mainland's technology has reached the technical level that can independently complete the lunar exploration mission.
Of course, what mankind has gained through this mission is not only to strengthen space technology, but also to lay an important foundation for the future development of the continental space exploration project.
America's changing attitudes.
The news that Chang'e-6 is about to return to Earth has not only attracted widespread attention from the space community, but also deeply touched the administrator of NASA Hodgbald.
"Congratulations to China on the success of Chang'e-6, which will give the world an unprecedented understanding of lunar science," he said in an interview.
The United States has previously been the only country in the world to have successfully landed on the moon, and has been looking forward to the day when other countries will be able to successfully control an unmanned probe to go to the moon and bring samples back to Earth.
And now, the dream they planted before was actually under their noses and was successfully realized by the mainland.
Therefore, in an interview later, he said: "I hope that when I can sit with the Chinese astronauts on the moon, I can give an olive branch to the Chinese astronaut team, such as if there are any lunar samples that need to be brought from the earth, we can also help carry them."
There are also a number of reasons for Hodgboulder's change of attitude, the most obvious of which is the rivalry between China and the United States in the field of space exploration.
It is precisely because China has learned from the United States and developed unmanned detector technology to such a successful level that the United States can better appreciate the significance of China's success this time.
Hodgbould's transformation has also made many mainland supporters very happy and proud, because the success of Chang'e-6 has not only made an important contribution to the development of China's space exploration, but has also been recognized by the whole world, giving China's scientific and technological innovation a greater influence on the international stage.
The results of the U.S.-China space race are mutually beneficial.
Although the United States has repeatedly questioned and suppressed the mainland's space program, this has not affected the mainland's scientists from concentrating on their own research work.
Although the mainland's space technology has lagged behind at the beginning and has caught up with it later, this cannot erase the mainland's efforts and successes.
Now the reversal of the attitude of the United States is more in the hope that it can get a piece of the mainland's three-power aerospace project, but the attitude is just good-looking on the surface.
Even in the last century, after the mainland purchased space technology from the United States, it began to gradually realize the independence of its space engineering, and since then, the mainland's space program has never purchased any technology from the United States.
Now, however, the United States has taken aim at the mainland and imposed a series of restrictive measures on Sino-US space cooperation, which have instead stimulated the mainland's ability to develop its own space exploration.
The United States, on the other hand, has begun to consider cooperating with the mainland in terms of technology, hoping to obtain the mainland's flight technology in order to solve the flight problems it is currently facing.
At this time, private companies in the United States began to emerge, hoping to replace NASA for space exploration in a private way, and great progress has been made in unmanned flight.
In such competition, the production and launch of rockets is also the exclusive business of private companies.
But the technology of these private companies is still in low-Earth orbit, and even the Mars exploration mission is carried out by the National Space Administration, and the private companies have only followed the rhythm of the National Space Administration to start space tourism.
Although Boeing of the United States carried out its first space flight in 2021 and made great progress in taking off the aircraft, there are still many problems in the manufacture of starliners.
During the lift-off flight, one side of it encountered an explosion of the rocket engine, and the cause of the explosion accident was not fully inspected and investigated in the subsequent investigation.
In order to catch up with the time, they used a temporary solution, and the screws were plugged directly on the engine and not taken out, so there are very concerns about whether there will be an explosion after that.
The cause of the explosion accident may also lie in the company's transportation links, so it is necessary to reinforce the rockets before launching them in the future, put them on lifting equipment, and transport them safely before launching.
In the process of transporting these starplanes, the cost of transportation will also need to be added to the fuel cost, which will make Boeing's starplane program very expensive to transport in the future, and will eventually pose a threat to astronauts.
epilogue
The attitude of the United States has always been in a state of inconsistency, and it has always been in an attitude of questioning and suppressing the mainland's space program, and now it has told the mainland that it can come to take samples.
China and the United States can cooperate in the field of space exploration to jointly promote scientific development and technological progress, and lay the foundation for more space exploration partnerships.