China is one bit nearer to turning into the second-ever country to take individuals to the moon. Researchers in the nation of 1.4 billion individuals are building a rocket to return Earthlings to the moon. The plans were reported at the 2020 China Space Conference on Sept. 18. The new, moon-centered rocket would be triple the size of China’s biggest current rocket.

Any dispatch, and the hypothetical appearance of Chinese residents on the moon, is still years away. People have not gone to the moon since the American Apollo 17 team withdrew the surface on Dec. 14, 1972. Each of the six lunar landings occurred somewhere during 1969 and 1972. In January 2019, China turned into the first nation to land a rover on the light-less part of the lunar surface.