China on pace to land astronauts on moon by 2030, space agency says

China on pace to land astronauts on moon by 2030, space agency says

Rocket, crew carrier and lander pass key early hurdles with testing ‘progressing smoothly’, as US Artemis programme navigates delays.

President Xi Jinping gave an accelerator to China's "space dream" with the aim of sending a Chinese crew to the Moon by 2030 and then building a lunar base there.

The Tiangong space station has made China a major contender in the space race; China aims to put a person on the moon before 2030

The Chinese space agency aims to send a man to the moon before 2030.

China is actively preparing a new space mission to its Tiangong station, with the objective of sending astronauts to the Moon and building a base there before 2030. Crew of the Shenzhou-20 mission Five days after the unveiling of the crew, the Shenzhou-20 mission will take off this Thursday at 5:17 p.m. local time from Jiuquan. Composed of an experienced colonel [...]