China's latest lunar timeline could include a crewed mission to the moon around 2030.
, the country plans to launch a mission in 2025 that would retrieve samples from the far side of the moon and return them to Earth. Then in late 2026, it would launch a mission seeking water on the moon's South Pole. Subsequent launches would prepare China to build an international lunar research station, which it hopes to complete by 2035.
China has already completed robotic missions to the moon. It landed a rover on the far side of the moon in 2019. And in 2020, a separate mission collected and returned lunar soil. NASA is working to return astronauts to the moon through its Artemis Program. The Artemis I mission that launched Nov. 16 will be followed by Artemis II, a crewed mission around the moon, in 2024. Then Artemis III is slated to land the first woman and person of color on the moon in 2025.
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