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China and Russia Discuss Joint Mission to Mars

August 23, 2006 :: AFP :: News

China and Russia are planning a joint mission to Mars. The Xinhua news agency quotes Ye Peijian, a scientist at the Chinese Research Institute of Space Technology, who announced yesterday that Russia plans to launch the spacecraft in 2009, which will carry Chinese-made equipment. The goal is to land on Mars and its nearest moon, and collect samples.
        In June, Sun Laiyan, administrator of the China National Space Administration, said that China would focus on the moon and Mars in its deep space exploration program over the next five years. China has previously said it hopes to launch a lunar exploration satellite in 2007 as part of a program that aims to place an unmanned vehicle on the moon by 2010. In 2003, it successfully launched astronaut Yang Liwei into orbit, becoming the third country after the Soviet Union and the U.S. to put a man in space. (Article)

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