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People wave India's national flag at the Nehru Science Centre in Mumbai on August 23, 2023, to celebrate the successful lunar landing of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the south pole of the Moon. India on August 23, became the first nation to land a craft near the Moon's south pole, a historic triumph for the world's most populous nation and its ambitious, cut-price space programme. (Photo by Punit PARANJPE / AFP) (Photo by PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP via Getty Images)

India Becomes First Country To Land On Moon’s South Pole

India became the first country to reach the lunar south pole on Wednesday.

An employee of the China Manned Space Agency takes photos in front of a board showing the countrys astronauts after a pre-launch press conference for the Shenzhou-16 mission at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on May 29, 2023 in Jiuquan, China. The astronauts will travel on the Shenzhou-16 spacecraft carried by a Long March-2F rocket to Chinas Tiangong Space Station from the Gobi Desert on May 30 and will stay for six months, relieving the crew that arrived there late in 2022. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

China planning to land their astronauts on the moon by 2030

According to Chinese officials, China’s expanding space program plans to build its own orbiting space station and send their astronauts to the moon by 2030.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-63), pictured in the 1960s in the USA. 09 November 1960, he was the first Catholic, and the youngest person, to be elected for Democratic party the president of the USA. 22 November 1963, Kennedy was assassinated while being driven in an open car through Dallas. (Photo by Stringer -/AFP via Getty Images)

May 25, 1961: Pres. Kennedy Challenges Congress: Land U.S. Citizen on Moon by Decade’s End

On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy issues the greatest scientific challenge to the American people landing a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.

People pass their time as they wait for the SpaceX Starship rocket to be launched in South Padre Island, Texas on April 17, 2023. - SpaceX on Monday postponed the first test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. Liftoff of the giant rocket was called off just minutes ahead of the scheduled launch time because of a pressurization issue, SpaceX officials said. (Photo by VERONICA G. CARDENAS/AFP via Getty Images)

SpaceX halts test flight of Starship rocket after valve freezes

SpaceX’s powerful Starship rocket launch that was scheduled for Monday morning has been postponed by the corporation.

(L-R) Astronauts Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman hug fellow astronauts after being selected for the Artemis II mission who will venture around the Moon during a news conference held by NASA and CSA at Ellington airport in Houston, Texas, on April 3, 2023. - Traveling aboard NASAs Orion spacecraft during Artemis II, the mission is the first crewed flight test on the agencys path to establishing a long-term scientific and human presence on the lunar surface. (Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)

NASA announces that astronauts will fly by the moon in 2024

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) revealed on Monday that a team of four astronauts will launch on a crucial test voyage to slingshot around the moon next year, paving the way for the agency’s eagerly anticipated return to the lunar surface.

Will China Take the Moon?

with Randy Landreneau – 01/04/2023