China publicly discloses timeline for crewed lunar landing before 2030
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Chinese space officials confirmed at the Seventh Manned Spaceflight Conference in Beijing that China plans to land astronauts on the Moon within three years, targeting a landing before 2030. The mission will use a lunar-orbit rendezvous approach, launching the crew and lander separately because China lacks a rocket as powerful as the Saturn V. The current roadmap omits a preliminary crewed lunar flyby mission akin to Apollo 8 or Artemis II.
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