China has set its sights on trying to seize control of the Moon, an expert has claimed. Leonard David, author of Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet, said Beijing is “pressing forward on an agenda of lunar exploration - one that will eventually lead to China placing home-grown boots on the Moon”. The nation’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft entered Mars’s orbit last week.
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