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		</div><p>China and the European Space Agency are discussing a potential collaboration for a human outpost on The Moon, according to reports. The secretary general for China&#8217;s space agency, Tian Yulong, first disclosed the talks about the envisioned lunar base in Chinese state media.</p>
<p>They were confirmed today by Pal Hvistendahl, a spokesman for the European Space Agency, or ESA.<br />
&#8220;The Chinese have a very ambitious moon program already in place,&#8221; Mr Hvistendahl said.<br />
&#8220;Space has changed since the space race of the 60s. We recognise that to explore space for peaceful purposes, we do international cooperation.&#8221;</p>
<p>The director general of the 22-member ESA, Johann-Dietrich Woerner, has described its proposed &#8220;Moon Village&#8221; as a potential international launching pad for future missions to Mars and a chance to develop space tourism or even lunar mining.</p>
<p>China arrived relatively late to space travel, but has ramped up its programme since its first manned spaceflight in 2003, more than 42 years after a Soviet cosmonaut became the first to reach orbit.<br />
Last week, the China National Space Administration launched an unmanned spacecraft on a mission to dock with its currently unoccupied space station.</p>
<p>It plans to launch a mission to collect samples from The Moon by the end of this year and next year conduct the first mission to the moon&#8217;s far side and bring back mineral samples. The ESA hopes to conduct a mission analysis on samples brought back by this year&#8217;s Chinese mission, known as Chang&#8217;e 5, and also have a European flying on the Chinese space station at some future date, Mr Hvistendahl said.</p>
<p>China was excluded from the International Space Station mainly due to US legislation barring such cooperation and concerns over the Chinese space programme&#8217;s strong military connections.</p>
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