China's Ambitious Space Plans: Moon Landing and Space Station Expansion with Foreign Partners.

China plans to land astronauts on the moon before 2030 and expand its orbiting space station, as it competes with the US for milestones in outer space. The US aims to put astronauts back on the lunar surface by the end of 2025. China's space agency also introduced three astronauts who will head to the country's space station in a launch scheduled for Tuesday morning. China built its own space station after being excluded from the International Space Station, largely due to US objections over the Chinese space program's intimate ties to the PLA.