Fri 09 September 2022:
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has criticized China for not being “open and transparent” about its lunar mission, according to the Daily Mail,
This comes after reports that suggested China and the United States might share landing sites on the moon. The US-based space agency seemed concerned about locations on the south pole of the moon.
NASA told DailyMail.com, “Just as the lunar South Pole is of scientific interest to NASA, it is also of scientific interest to other nations, so overlap in potential landing regions is to be expected.”
Recently, NASA identified 13 potential landing sites on Mood for the Artemis 3 crewed mission, which is scheduled for 2025. The landing sites were marked as NASA plans to land on the Moon’s surface for the time in a half-century.
With Artemis missions, NASA is planning to build a long-term human presence on the Moon in the coming decades.
It will be the first crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17 in 1972 if everything goes according to plan and Artemis 3 is a success.
Concerns were also raised when a Chinese journal article listed 10 potential locations for Chang’e-7’s lunar landings and chose three locations near the Moon’s south pole that overlapped with NASA’s plans.
According to a Daily Mail report, Artemis 3 and Chang’e-7 designated areas near the craters of Shackleton, Haworth, and Nobile as potential landing zones.
The Chang’e-4 lunar mission commander Zhang He and others wrote the article.
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