Newscriticism: "Chang'e-6 is just the tip of China's ambitions for the Solar System" (BBC, May 12th, 2024)

[From BBC's article.]

SUMMARY

China's Chang'e-6 mission, aimed at retrieving lunar samples, serves as a significant milestone in the country's ambitious space exploration agenda. By orchestrating a complex series of maneuvers involving four spacecraft, China hopes to gather samples from the lunar far side, offering valuable insights into the Solar System's history. This mission not only showcases China's technological prowess but also serves as a rehearsal for future endeavors, including potential Mars sample return missions.

The Chang'e-6 mission's intricate dance of spacecraft involves a rendezvous and docking procedure in lunar orbit, showcasing China's advancements in automated space operations. Beyond the scientific implications, this mission underscores China's broader aspirations in space, including crewed lunar missions and the establishment of a lunar base. By investing in space exploration, China aims to enhance its geopolitical standing and technological capabilities, positioning itself as a major player in the global space arena.

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NEWSCRITICISM

Space is a new frontier for Mankind to explore the full essence of reality and to unlock and disclose the nature of Totality further not seen on Earth – it is a wonderful and vast place; however we really did not venture further and become more ambitious since Mankind put a Human on the Moon; while we admit that Mankind has progressed further, for we can really observe Space from Earth by itself, but to step out of that shell known as Earth and aim for the stars to know more about the last frontier for further answers and answering life's ultimate questions... it is different.

Space is ripe for exploration and expansion, that is right; but it is also the next stage for Humankind to develop and ascend forward to a new period of history, where not only we can prove that we have dominated our planet as an achievement, but also, by travelling through space and colonizing it, we proved ourselves that in the game of life and civilization, we are resilient, we are driven by curiosity, and most importantly: we show the world that we indeed are an advanced sapient species.

Space, therefore, is the final bastion of our curious World-Disclosure and discovery of Mankind towards the greater existential frontier of Totality and existence: the Physical-Seen, also known as the Material World.

Thus Space is ripe for all Human Civilizations to prove thier worth that they can not only reach space, but utilize it for the common benefit of Humankind. In the time of an emerging new era of Space surpassing the first era of Space witnessed by Humankind during the Cold War (the Space Race), here, in a Multipolar World, chances are not only the American and Russian Civilizations will be involved in the exploration and colonization of Space, but also the Chinese, European, and Indian Civilizations are involved in the struggle and race – either through cooperation or competition – towards the march into the deep, starry void field full of stars.

China, a state based on Chinese Marxism as it's worldview and foundation of the current Modern Chinese Civilization, is competing with the US in terms of projects and plans to March towards Space to bring prosperous hope towards its Civilization and its allies, to show the world they too – and anyone else (so long as they have the technological capability and resources) – can be involved in the affairs of Space. China's example, like so many others, prove that Mankind still has the desire to enter and explore the last frontier of our Material Existence, that being Space.

The Dream to the Stars is not just only there, well and alive – but also reinvigorated once more by not two civilizations (as in the past) – but by many civilizations. The spirit of exploration and thirst of knowledge attributed to all humankind is still there.

Joshua Kyle T. Rovero

Estado Rovero

May 13th 2024