China’s New Space Idea!

China is planning to build a spacecraft that would be kilometres long, according to a proposal from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The spacecraft would be assembled and placed in low-Earth orbit and would be used for long-duration missions, such as exploring Mars or the Moon. However, not everyone is convinced with the feasibility of the mission. Since the spaceship parts will be developed on Earth, it will take a ridiculous number of launches to transport them to space. It took 232 extra-vehicular activities to assemble the parts of the International Space Station, the largest spacecraft to be assembled in space and it was just 109 meters end to end. The proposed Chinese platform calls for a structure 20 times that size. This would cost the nation nearly 3 trillion dollars to build the spacecraft. What do you think about it?

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