This is John Batchster, conversation with my colleague Bob Zimmerman behind the black.

The Chinese plan for moon landing.

The date 2030, and Bob describes in detail their plan.

Two launches gets my attention.

Here's Bob Zimmerman on the People's Republic of China, on the moon, in 2030, question mark.

Much of this later.

They want to try to put people on the moon by 2030.

And they've now announced the basic infrastructure, architect of a plan.

They would do two launches.

One launch would launch with a lander and ascent capsule to lunar orbit.

A second launch would send the astronauts in a Mengzhou manned capsule, which is based

on their Senchao capsule, and that would also go to the moon.

And the two would then rendezvous on, lunar orbit, the descent capsule,

an ascent capsule would go down, astronauts would be on the moon, and then the ascent capsule

will bring them back to the manned capsule, which would then come back to Earth.

That's their plan.