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China Intends to Launch Its Own Probe to Mars Next Year
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China Intends to Launch Its Own Probe to Mars Next Year

China's space office intends to dispatch a probe to Mars one year from now, following its recent successful landing on the Moon's far side, as per an announcement from one of the nation's noticeable space researchers. The declaration came in front of the meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, basically a governmental advisory group of delegates from over the Chinese political spectrum. “Over the past 60 years, we’ve made a lot achievements, but there is still a large distance from the world space powers. We must speed up our pace,” Wu Weiren, chief designer of China’s lunar exploration program, said to the China Global Television Network’s CCTV+. “…China will become the third country that is capable of such task after the United States and Russia. Next y...