{"feed":"moon-race","schemaVersion":1,"title":"Race to the Moon tracker","description":"US vs China: milestones demonstrated on both 8-rung ladders, the projection call with its headline-scenario date bands, official targets and the next uncrewed landing attempt.","source":"https://spacenexus.us/moon","method":"https://spacenexus.us/moon/method","dataAsOf":"2026-09-24","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","appliesTo":"Every field in this response."},"attribution":{"line":"Data: SpaceNexus (spacenexus.us)","link":"https://spacenexus.us/moon","ours":["goals","projection","officialTargets","nextUncrewedLandingAttempt"],"thirdParty":[]},"limits":{"rateLimitPerMinute":60,"cacheSeconds":3600,"scope":"The tracker summary. The rung-by-rung evidence with sources is on /moon; the mission and landing datasets are free CSVs listed on /datasets.","bulkAndHistory":"https://spacenexus.us/developer#api-access","docs":"https://spacenexus.us/developer#open-data"},"methodologyVersion":"1.0.3","countryNames":{"CN":"China","US":"United States"},"projection":{"call":"Too close to call","leader":null,"headlineScenario":"lunar-hsf.remaining.year","bands":{"CN":{"central":"2029-11-18","low":"2029-05-30","high":"2032-10-27"},"US":{"central":"2030-11-20","low":"2029-11-14","high":"2031-07-22"}},"rule":"A country is called \"projected first\" only when every published scenario separates the bands in its favour; otherwise the call is \"Too close to call\"."},"officialTargets":{"CN":"Before 2030 (2030年前)","US":"2028 (NASA target: early 2028) for Artemis IV"},"nextUncrewedLandingAttempt":{"mission":"Griffin Mission One (\"Moon Base II\")","date":"No earlier than November 2026 (NASA Moon Base manager, 15 Sep 2026)"},"count":2,"data":[{"goal":"landing","label":"Crewed landing","definition":"At least one person on the lunar surface, returned to Earth alive.","rungsDemonstrated":{"CN":1.75,"US":3.5},"rungsPerGoal":8,"leader":"US","achievedBy":null,"call":"United States leads on demonstrated milestones"},{"goal":"presence","label":"Permanent presence","definition":"Continuous human occupation of a lunar surface site for at least 365 days. No agency’s label decides it: NASA says \"permanent outpost\" and the ILRS says \"long-term robotic operation with short-term human participation\"; we measure both against this definition.","rungsDemonstrated":{"CN":1.25,"US":1},"rungsPerGoal":8,"leader":null,"achievedBy":null,"call":"Level on demonstrated milestones"}]}