Watch out, NASA.
, back in 2020 — the Chinese space program stands a good chance of doing just that, leaving other spacefaring countries like the US and Russia in the dust.
According to a recent presentation by Sun Zezhou, chief designer of the country's Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter and rover mission, China is hoping to kick off a Mars sample return mission called Tianwen-3 in late 2028, returning samples by July 2031 — two years before NASA's joint mission with the European Space Agency , according toWhile NASA and the ESA were also initially hoping to bring back samples by July 2031, in an ambitious mission with a lot of moving parts including NASA's...
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