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We apologize for the degraded sound quality in the first 15 minutes. Before the end of the decade, Chinese astronauts will walk on the moon, and shortly after, an automated probe will bring back rock samples from Mars. For this, own orbital station, space shuttle or plan to build a lunar base. Before launch, it has a large space telescope, probes to asteroids, comets or beyond the borders of the Solar System. And as a cherry on top, a number of commercial companies that develop their own rockets, satellites and other technology or services. All this and much more is today's astronautics in the People's Republic of China. Ing. Tomáš Přibyl is a columnist in the field of cosmonautics and the author of many non-fiction books (Death Was Named Challenger, The Day Columbia Didn't Return, Treasures of Cosmonautics, Conquest of the Moon, etc.). He personally visited all NASA space centers, met more than 260 cosmonauts, saw all American space shuttles launch. He works as a curator of aviation and cosmonautics at the Technical Museum in Brno.