CCTV.com News: According to China's manned space flight public account, after public solicitation and selection, recently, the names of the lunar landing suits and manned lunar rovers in China's manned lunar exploration mission have been confirmed. The lunar landing suit is named "Wangyu" and the manned lunar rover is named "Exploration".

After the first public solicitation of the name of a new aircraft for the manned lunar exploration mission in 2023, from September to October 2024, the China Manned Space Engineering Office successively launched the collection of the name of a manned lunar exploration mission lunar suit and manned lunar rover, which attracted widespread attention and enthusiastic participation in the whole society. It has received more than 9,000 submissions from organizations and people from all walks of life in the fields of aerospace, science and technology, cultural communication and other fields. After expert selection and evaluation, the lunar landing suit was named "Wangyu" and the manned lunar rover was named "Exploration".

The names of the lunar landing suits and manned lunar rovers have distinct Chinese characteristics, contemporary characteristics and cultural characteristics. "Looking at the universe" means looking at the universe from afar and exploring the unknown, echoing the "Flying" outer cabin service that performs space station flight missions. It means that after realizing the dream of flying and building a "space home", China's manned space flight embarked on a new journey of landing on the moon and looking at deep space from afar. It also conveys China's firm position to always adhere to the peaceful use of space and contribute to the building of a community with a shared future for mankind in its development. "Exploration" means the exploration and practice of the unknown world, clearly reflecting the core mission and application value of the lunar rover that will help the Chinese explore the mystery of the moon, and is highly consistent with the space dream of "exploring the vast universe, developing the aerospace industry, and building a strong aerospace power", demonstrating China's innovative spirit of manned space flight to climb to the top and unremitting pursuit.

At present, Wangyu lunar landing suit and Exploration manned lunar rover have fully entered the preliminary sample development stage, and all work is progressing smoothly.