Have you heard？ China will ＂make a home＂ on the moon before 2045.

　　Yesterday (April 24th), the press conference of Shenzhou 18 manned mission was held in Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Three astronauts of the Shenzhou-18 manned spacecraft also made a collective appearance yesterday. Yesterday, NASA also announced the latest progress of the lunar exploration project. What will the future international lunar research station look like? We have a sneak peek through a short film.

　　From the concept video of the international lunar research station, we can see that the international lunar research station has a variety of functions, which is very exciting. Then why should we build an international lunar research station? How to build it? Let’s listen to what the chief designer of the lunar exploration project said.

　　The International Lunar Research Station is a comprehensive scientific experimental base that can be built on the surface or orbit of the moon to carry out multi-disciplinary and multi-objective scientific research activities such as the exploration and utilization of the moon itself and run independently for a long time. With the continuous accumulation of China’s deep space exploration technology and experience, our research direction on deep space and international lunar research station has also been established.

　　Wu Weiren, chief designer of China’s lunar exploration project:In the past, we were able to reach the moon, but now we are mainly going to carry out scientific experiments on it; We used to go to a certain point, but now we may have to explore a large area and explore in depth; In the past, it was dominated by the government, but now it is beginning to be led by the government and commercial aerospace actively participates in the transformation; A number of national organizations have joined forces to jointly carry out exploration.

　　Wu Weiren introduced that the International Lunar Research Station will be implemented step by step according to two stages. The first step is the basic construction stage. Before 2035, a comprehensive scientific facility with basic functions and basic supporting elements will be built with the South Pole of the Moon as the core. The second step is the expanding construction stage. Before 2045, the equipment and facilities with perfect functions, considerable scale and stable operation will be built with the lunar orbit station as the hub.

　　Wu Weiren, chief designer of China’s lunar exploration project:The moon is a starting point, and the International Lunar Research Station will provide a long-term scientific research for human beings to go further into deep space, and they can work and live on it for a long time. Make technical reserves and material and intellectual reserves for going to Mars and deeper space in the future.