Promise Ledger

CMSA: public spaceflight commitments

China Manned Space Agency. These are the dated public commitments by CMSA and its people that we could source to a primary, with what happened.

1 entry: 1 pending.

Plain counts, not a grade or a ranking. A short record is not a complete one. Checked against sources on Sep 26, 2026; scoring rules on the methodology page.

This first release is a selection, and a short record is not a complete record. Each programme milestone enters the ledger at its earliest dated public commitment we can find in a primary source, for governments and companies alike. Later dated commitments for the same milestone are shown on that one entry as a revision chain, oldest first, rather than as separate entries.

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First Chinese crewed Moon landing before 2030
Pending · worded as a target
Crewed milestone · CMSA
“瞄准2030年前实现中国人首次登陆月球的目标”Translation: “targeting the goal of achieving the first landing of Chinese people on the Moon before 2030”
Said Feb 27, 2026. Source: China Manned Space Agency (CMSE site): 2026年载人航天工程年度任务 (2026 annual tasks of the crewed space programme) (Feb 27, 2026, paragraph 3)
Context: CMSA's 2026 annual plan announcement; CMSA first announced the 'before 2030' goal on 29 May 2023.
Deadline
“2030年前 (before 2030)”, read as Dec 31, 2029 (year precision)Worded as a target ("targeting", "plan", "expect", "no earlier than")
Counts as met when
Chinese astronauts land on the Moon on or before 31 December 2029.
Outcome: No crewed lunar landing as of 2026-09-26; the deadline has not passed.
Checked against the source on Sep 26, 2026. Report a correction or send a response to this entry

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CMSA: public spaceflight commitments

China Manned Space Agency. These are the dated public commitments by CMSA and its people that we could source to a primary, with what happened.

1 entry: 1 pending.

Plain counts, not a grade or a ranking. A short record is not a complete one. Checked against sources on Sep 26, 2026; scoring rules on the methodology page.

Entries

Met

Met late

Missed

Pending

What the statuses mean

Pending:: the deadline has not passed.

Entries, soonest deadline first

First Chinese crewed Moon landing before 2030
Pending · worded as a target
Crewed milestone · CMSA
“瞄准2030年前实现中国人首次登陆月球的目标”Translation: “targeting the goal of achieving the first landing of Chinese people on the Moon before 2030”
Said Feb 27, 2026. Source: China Manned Space Agency (CMSE site): 2026年载人航天工程年度任务 (2026 annual tasks of the crewed space programme) (Feb 27, 2026, paragraph 3)
Context: CMSA's 2026 annual plan announcement; CMSA first announced the 'before 2030' goal on 29 May 2023.
Deadline
“2030年前 (before 2030)”, read as Dec 31, 2029 (year precision)Worded as a target ("targeting", "plan", "expect", "no earlier than")
Counts as met when
Chinese astronauts land on the Moon on or before 31 December 2029.
Outcome: No crewed lunar landing as of 2026-09-26; the deadline has not passed.
Checked against the source on Sep 26, 2026. Report a correction or send a response to this entry

Corrections, responses and submissions

Something wrong? Report a correction with the entry and a source. Every entry also has its own link.
An organisation named here can send its public response to an entry through the same link; a dated, sourced response is shown on the entry.
Know a dated public commitment we have not listed? Submit it with the exact words and a primary source (the speaker's own post, video with a timestamp, release, filing or transcript).
The same rules and the same standard of evidence apply to everyone. Confirmed changes are logged on the corrections page with the date.

The whole Promise Ledger, with every organisation and person, and the topic trackers.

CMSA: public spaceflight commitments

Entries, soonest deadline first

First Chinese crewed Moon landing before 2030

Corrections, responses and submissions

CMSA: public spaceflight commitments

Entries, soonest deadline first

First Chinese crewed Moon landing before 2030

Corrections, responses and submissions

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