China's crewed Moon landing program
Where it stands: China is sharing more detail on how it plans to land taikonauts on the Moon by 2030, built around a two-launches, lunar-orbit-rendezvous profile. Development of the Long March-10 rocket, the Mengzhou crew spacecraft and the Lanyue lunar lander is advancing, but no independent report on development status is yet available.
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- 2026-11-03 China is sharing more detail on how it plans to land taikonauts on the Moon by 2030, built around a "two launches, lunar orbit rendezvous" profile, with development of the Long March-10 rocket, the Mengzhou crew spacecraft, and the Lanyue lunar lander advancing (spacepolicyonline.com/news). No independent report on development status yet — a broader write-up later would firm it up. Single source.