Reference Message Network reported on April 26 that according to a report by Reuters on April 24, the China National Space Administration announced on the 24th that it would allow scientists from multiple countries including the United States to analyze the samples it collected from the moon, which is the latest move by Beijing to increase the international influence of its lunar exploration program. This news also indicates that despite the strained relations between the United States and China on geopolitical and tariff issues, cooperation in fields such as space has not been completely terminated.
The two American universities, Brown University and Stony Brook University of the State University of New York, which are funded by NASA, have been granted permission to borrow the samples collected by China from the moon in 2020.
A total of 7 institutions were granted borrowing qualifications, with the others coming from Japan, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Pakistan.
According to the report, after the completion of the Chang'e-5 mission in 2020, China became the third country after the United States and the Soviet Union to collect samples from the surface of the moon. Subsequently, China completed the Chang'e-6 mission in June last year, making it the first country to bring back samples from the far side of the moon.
The report stated that long-term cooperation between the United States and China in the field of space has been obstructed by a clause passed by the United States in 2011. According to this clause, NASA must cooperate with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to prove to Congress that any contact with China will not threaten the national security of the United States.
The report believes that Beijing hopes to establish closer political relations with its close partners and allies of the United States through its space power.
China hopes that the Chang'e-7 and Chang'e-8 missions will help provide the information it needs to decide where and how to build a lunar base. (Compiled/translated by Ge Xuelai)
On April 8, at the nano ion probe laboratory of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, scientific researchers placed the lunar samples to be experimentally detected into the nano ion probe sample target stage.(Xinhua News Agency)
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