Beijing's ambition to put an astronaut on the moon in 2025 and began an investigation to explore Mars and Venus in the five years from now.
Director of the China Space Agency, Ye Peijian, said China could make the first manned aircraft landing on the moon within 15 years from now. They even claimed to be able to send probes to Mars in 2013 and Venus in 2015.
"China has full capacity to achieve the exploration of Mars in 2013," he added, as quoted by The Guardian, Tuesday (21/09/2010).
Indeed in the last seven years China's ambitions to become the third country to put one of its citizens in space. Astronaut Yang Liwei, became the first astronaut into orbit in 2008.
Confirmed later this week, China plans to build the first space station around the year 2020.
"Space program has been developing very fast but of course, China still lags far when compared with the United States and Russia because they have the most advanced technology," said Professor Fu Song, deputy dean of Tsinghua University School of Aerospace in Beijing.
"This is clearly a very difficult task but I think in terms of technology, China can do it. The United States is technically capable of doing it almost half a century ago," he added.
Added as well, the moon is a world that is foreign to humans and there are many things waiting to be explored. He said there might still waiting for the energy resources found.
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