中国航天官员本周末确认，该亚洲国家计划在三年内将宇航员送上月球。
Chinese space officials confirmed this weekend that the Asian nation plans to land its astronauts on the Moon within three years.
在第七届载人航天会议上，包括月球探测工程总设计师王湘在内的官员，阐述了该国迄今为止公开披露得最详细的一系列导向载人登月的任务计划，目标是在“2030年前”实现。中国的月球登陆将采用类似于美国宇航局在20世纪60年代和70年代初阿波罗计划中所采用的月球轨道会合方式。但由于缺乏像土星五号那样强大的运载火箭，宇航员和月球着陆器将分别发射前往月球。
At the Seventh Manned Spaceflight Conference in Beijing, officials, including Wang Xiang, chief designer for the lunar exploration program, laid out the country's most publicly detailed plans yet for a series of missions leading up to a crewed lunar landing "before 2030." China's lunar landings will involve a lunar-orbit rendezvous similar to what NASA did in the 1960s and early 1970s with the Apollo program. However, lacking a rocket as powerful as the Saturn V vehicle, the crew and lunar lander will launch separately to the Moon.