BEIJING: Pakistan has joined hands with China in a significant project to set up a research station on the moon’s South Pole, an area of great interest for science.
Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister, Anwar ul Haq Kakar, was in China to attend a meeting when this collaboration was announced. They signed an initial agreement during the visit.
China’s space agency, known as CNSA, says this partnership will cover many aspects of building and operating a lunar base.
China has big plans in space and is already working with Russia, Venezuela, and South Africa.
They want to put their astronauts on the moon by the end of this decade. This project lines up with NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return American astronauts to the moon in 2025.
Recently, India made history by becoming the first country to reach the moon’s South Pole, an area that’s always hidden from Earth.
They are the fourth country to land on the moon. Both the United States and India are planning to send astronauts to the moon in the coming years.
The last time a human set foot on the moon was way back in 1972 during the Apollo program.
