Chinese hesitation of manned lunar mission – are extraterrestrials and UFOs influencing China too?
Staff Reporter
Feb. 20, 2005

China joined Russia and America in putting a human into space on October 15, 2003. Since then China has announced plans to put a probe in Moon’s orbit by 2007 and make a manned mission to moon by 2020.

According to sources in the China Aerospace Science and Technology (Cast) agency, the planned manned mission to moon scheduled for 2020 is facing strange obstacles. There are very early indications that China may quietly diffuse the ambition and not go to moon with a manned mission after all.

The Cast agency officials have started backpedaling on the time schedule and detailed plans for making the manned mission possible by 2020.

According to Chinese sources, it is a matter of Chinese pride and nationalistic icon to have the manned mission. If China does finally announce that they will not make humans go anywhere above the immediate atmosphere above the earth’s surface, this will just confirm what many extra-terrestrial researchers were predicting for many years. According to these researchers, Americans and the Russians were clearly told by the higher order of extraterrestrials in the Universe that humans are not welcome to travel beyond the earth’s immediate atmosphere without much more advanced technologies.

According to sources from China, the biggest problem Chinese are facing is the mechanism of shielding the astronauts from the super strong radiation levels of the Van Allen Radiation Belt. They just cannot figure out how the Americans did it in 1960s.

The inner radiation belt extends over altitudes of 650-6,300 km. This ring is most concentrated in the Earth's equatorial plane. It consists mostly of protons, a by-product of collisions between cosmic ray ions and atoms of the atmosphere. The belt also contains electrons, low-energy protons, and oxygen atoms.

The outer radiation belt extends from an altitude of about 10,000-65,000 km and has its greatest intensity between 14,500-19,000 km. The outer belt is thought to consist of plasma trapped by the Earth's magnetosphere. The particle population of the outer belt is varied, containing electrons and various ions. Most of the ions are in the form of energetic protons, but a certain percentage are alpha particles and O+ oxygen ions, similar to those in the ionosphere but much more energetic. This mixture of ions suggests that ring current particles probably come from more than one source.

Solar cells, integrated circuits, and sensors can be damaged by radiation in these radiation belts. The Hubble Space Telescope, among other satellites, often has its sensors turned off when passing through regions of intense radiation.

Is it really possible to cross these belts with humans in the space craft? It is possible and Apollo mission probably did it. Apollo missions deliberately timed their launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation. The precision required for the same is so intense, it needs superb technical capabilities.

That is where Chinese are stuck at the moment. However, sources from China confirm that China may abandon the mission all together and instead focus on other things citing budgetory constraints like India has recently announced.

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