China's Moon Race: Challenging U.S. Supremacy in Spaceflight
After three decades of developing its space program, China plans a Moon landing by 2030, a lunar base and possible missions to Mars, positioning itself against U.S. dominance in spaceflight.
China, after 30 years of honing its spaceflight expertise, aims to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030 and build a lunar base, with potential future missions to Mars. Those ambitions are increasingly framed as a challenge to the United States' long-standing supremacy in spaceflight.