China has demonstrated a model of a lunar lander where astronauts (taikonauts) will land on the surface. A news about this was broadcast by China Central Television.
The model was unveiled at the National Museum of China on February 24 at an exhibition celebrating three decades of Chinese manned spaceflight. The layout allows us to conclude that the landing pattern will be significantly different from that used by American astronauts during the Apollo program.
The propulsion stage without landing legs will be fixed to the bottom of the module during landing. Its fuel will be used for braking until it leaves a certain altitude and the module descends using its own engines. The undocked stage will make a hard landing on the surface, and humans will ascend back into orbit using the same module they descended from. Separate takeoff and landing stages were used during the Apollo flights for comparison.
In the model you can see the engines, docking mechanisms, crew hold, and ladder, antennas and other equipment to lower the taikonauts to the surface. It was supposed to send humans to the moon in the late 2020s.
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