The name of the new aircraft for China’s manned lunar exploration mission has been officially determined. The new generation of manned spacecraft will be named “Mengzhou’.
The surface lander was named ‘Lan Yue’ and it is planned to achieve the first Chinese landing on the moon before 2030. The Mengzhou spacecraft is a new space-to-ground shuttle transport aircraft fully upgraded and developed based on the Shenzhou spacecraft. It consists of a return capsule and a service capsule and is reusable.