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. Updated Sep 28, 2026; each entry shows the date it was last checked against its source; 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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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 ·

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The same rules and the same standard of evidence apply to everyone. Confirmed changes are logged on the corrections page with the date.

Open data: download the whole ledger (CSV, CC BY 4.0). Archived on Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22985970. How entries are scored: methodology. No sponsor, advertiser or partner can add, remove, reorder, annotate or preview an entry, and these pages carry no advertising.

Cite as: SpaceNexus. (2026). SpaceNexus Promise Ledger (Version 2026-09-28) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22985970. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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

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.

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.

Cite as: SpaceNexus. (2026). SpaceNexus Promise Ledger (Version 2026-09-28) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22985970. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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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