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Actually it should be China on the moon soon. Theyve announded plans for a permanent lunar base. Theyre sending up scouting missions to find water and will be sending a experimental unit that uses lunar dust to print structures. This info came from a mechanical engineer i know in China. Its been added to the parties official list of plans and he said they only do that when they are very confident it will get done.
And China's going to the moon while also lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty and providing a moderately prosperous society in all respects
Yes, they have already sent bricks made of a volcanic material similar to lunar regolith to Tiangong a few months ago to study their exposure to space. Chang'e 7 will use a unique hopping rover to hopefully scout Shackleton in ways a conventional rover ever could. It almost sounds like one of those stupid venture capital buzzword baits that NASA might fund a feasibility study on and then shelve. But that is just a sign of how much more advanced China's lunar exploration program is, they are doing quite literally what NASA can only dream of.
Of course this will not stop American so-called "Space enthusiasts" from completely ignoring these facts and claiming that because they sent some guys there in the 70s and then completely gave up for 50 years that anything done in space from now unto the heat death of the universe is second place.