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2026-05-23 10:14:47
[China's Space Station to Achieve Lunar Landing by 2030 Will Be Supported by These Three Aspects] This morning (May 23), a press conference on the Shenzhou-23 manned space mission was held at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The spokesperson explained that the Chinese space station, as a national-level space laboratory, will provide strong support for the lunar exploration project in three main aspects. First, the space station mission has cultivated a team of astronauts with extensive spaceflight experience, providing a solid talent pool for selecting astronauts for future manned lunar landing missions. Second, the space station has been operating stably in orbit for nearly four years, deploying and verifying a series of key technologies for manned lunar landing. For example, the recently launched Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft mission carried out a microgravity environment surface tension tank liquid sloshing test, mainly to verify the accuracy and rationality of the technical specifications set for manned lunar landing-related spacecraft. Third, the new generation of near-Earth manned space transportation system, composed of the Long March 10A carrier rocket and the Mengzhou spacecraft, used in the space station mission, is integrated with the Long March 10 carrier rocket and Mengzhou lunar landing spacecraft system required for the lunar exploration project. Through multiple space station flight missions over the next two years, its technological maturity and mission reliability will be comprehensively improved, laying a solid foundation for the first manned lunar landing. Furthermore, the long-term on-orbit operation of the space station can also provide a larger and more comprehensive on-orbit platform for future lunar scientific research and deep space exploration missions. (CCTV News)
