China is an energetic US rival on the Moon and Mars, recognized the head of NASA Bill Nelson. The appropriate statement of the manager reports TASS.
According to Nelson, the Chinese “demonstrated the presence of technologies in order to overcome millions and millions of miles, to make a successful landing” to the surface of Mars. The head of NASA recalled that in the coming years China plans to send three Rovers to the moon, as well as land a person on the natural satellite of the Earth.
“We suddenly realize that they are not the owners of all this. And they are a very energetic opponent,” said the head of NASA.
Nelson noted that the United States needs to intensify its own efforts to study the moon.
Chinese Tianwen-1 spacecraft with a planet approach Zhurong made a successful landing on the surface of the Red Planet at night on May 15. With this event, the PRC congratulated in Russia and the United States. Subsequently, China has published a photo and video obtained by Tianwen-1 from Mars.
So China has become the third after the USSR and the US country who has committed a successful soft landing on Mars.