Chinese researchers are investigating the feasibility of having astronauts shelter in space inside lava tubes on the lunar surface, an exciting prospect that could one day allow astronauts to establish a more permanent presence once there. Scientists have long suspected that the lunar surface is riddled with intricate systems of hollow, tube-shaped tunnels, left behind […]
A team of Chinese researchers is studying the possibility of building an underground lunar base through the moon’s lava tubes that would be used for China’s future manned moon missions. Revealing the plan: Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology’s Zhang Chongfeng, who was also credited as the vice chief designer of the Shenzhou series spacecraft and moon landers, unveiled the study at the 10th CSA-IAA Conference on Advanced Space Technology held in Shanghai from Sept. 13 to 16.
In November of 2019, less than a month before the covid-19 pandemic took off and spread to nations all over the world, several scientists working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China fell seriously ill from an unknown virus. One of the researchers was Ben Hu, a scientist who had received significant funding from the U.S. government and whose research has focused on “how coronaviruses infect humans,” new reporting by the Wall Street Journal shows.
This trend began before the COVID-19 pandemic and appears to have been influenced by the Trump administration's controversial "China Initiative." , Technology & Science News, Times Now