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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>[ Enlarge Image]<br>Jim Rogash,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/du-lich-trung-quoc-gia-re/ kynghidongduong.vn] Getty Images<br>Retired basketball star Yao Ming's new role is simply out of this world.<br>The former Houston Rockets Centre is to become China's new "Ambassador to Mars," according to the [ South China Morning Post]. <br><br>It's not yet known whether China's most famous athlete may be expected to [ team up with the Looney Tunes] to defeat aliens in a basketball tournament. For now, Ming's main task is to help publicize China's plan to send a spacecraft to Mars by 2020.<br><br>China's Mars 2020 mission, [ first announced] earlier this year,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/du-lich-trung-quoc-gia-re/ tour trung quốc giá rẻ] is expected to carry a solar-powered probe to the surface of the red planet. It will use a Chinese-made Long March-5 rocket to launch from the Wenchang Space Centre in China's Hainan [http://ms-jd.org/search/results/search&keywords=province/ province].<br><br>Yao will be joined in his ambassadorial duties by 10 other Chinese luminaries, including science-fiction writer Liu Cixin, teenage boy band TFBOYS and women's Olympic gold-medal-winning volleyball team coach Lang Ping.<br><br>China isn't the only one with its eyes on Mars. Elon Musk [/news/spacex-mars-elon-musk-plans-saturn-v-rocket/ late last month outlined his plan] to colonize the planet, saying he envisions self-sustaining human civilisations on Mars in the next 40-100 years. <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>[#comments  Comments]<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>[/crave/ Crave]<br><br><br><br>[/topics/culture/ Culture]<br><br><br><br><br>[/topics/sci-tech/  Notification on Notification off Sci-Tech]