Published on: 2026-05-23
Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian language –
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Ziyuan, May 23 /Xinhua/ — The Chinese space station will enhance support for the country’s first mission of a crewed lunar landing, which is scheduled to take place by 2030, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced on Saturday.
As a national-level space laboratory, the Chinese space station “Tiangong” / “Heavenly Palace” has provided strong support in preparing the country’s cohort of astronauts and in verifying key technologies for crewed flights to the Moon, CMSA representatives stated at a press conference before the launch of the “Shenzhou-23” mission, scheduled for Sunday evening.
CMSA official representative Zhang Qizinbo cited a recently completed mission of the cargo spaceship “Tianzhou-10” as an example, noting that it delivered an experimental cargo into orbit intended to confirm the accuracy and validity of technical requirements for flight vehicle subsystems designed for piloted missions involving lunar surface landing.
Zhang Zhinbo also noted that the system used within the framework of the mission to create a new generation spacecraft transportation system for crew to low Earth orbit, consisting of the launch vehicle /LN/ “Changzheng-10A” and the spacecraft “Wenchang” /”Dream Boat”/, is designed and developed as a single entity with the manned LN “Changzheng-10” and the “Wenchang” spacecraft systems for landing on the Moon, indispensable for lunar missions.
According to him, over the next two years this system will undergo testing in the course of several flights to the space station, which will allow increasing its technical readiness and reliability.
In addition, the long-term operation of the space station will provide “broader and more extensive” services of the orbital platform for future research and development on the Moon, as well as for missions to explore deep space, Chang Jzinbo added. -0-
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