China merges lunar programmes as race to moon with US heats up after latest SpaceX launch

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As the race to send humans back to the moon heats up, China has been fine-tuning its plans.On Saturday – the day after the US company SpaceX successfully launched its largest and most powerful Starship – the China Manned Space Agency unveiled further details about its plans to integrate its crewed and uncrewed lunar landing programmes into a single mission.The purpose was “to fully leverage the technical foundations and practical experience accumulated over decades through crewed space...