The Chinese manned space program proposes to land people on the Moon by 2031-36 as a follow-up to the space station that it will begin launching around 2018.
By setting a target period, the China Manned Space Engineering office is evidently seeking to create an expectation among officials and the public that could help the project gain approval at the top of the government.
“We need to do our best to use the coming 15-20 years to achieve the objective of manned lunar exploration,” Lt. Gen. Zhang Yulin, deputy commander of the manned space program, has told a conference.
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