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First Hong Kong astronaut launches into space onboard Chinese mission

mission is the latest in China's ambitious space program to send humans to the moon by 2030

Nasa unveils next steps to build permanent Moon base

China is forging ahead with its own plans to land humans on the Moon by 2030. On Monday it launched its Shenzhou-23 spacecraft, sending a crew of astronauts to the country's Tiangong space

The tortoise and the hare: will China beat the US in the race back to the moon?

China National [Space](https://www.theguardian.com/science/space) Administration (CNSA) is pitted against the US’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa). And while [Nasa](https://www.theguardian.com/science/nasa) has an advantage from institutional knowledge of having already