China has unveiled details of its plans to land astronauts on the moon by the year 2030.
If it is successful, the mission would make China only the second country after the United States to achieve the feat.
The Chinese mission will be similar to the Apollo programme which took American astronauts to the moon more than half a century ago.
But unlike the Apollo mission, which used one rocket to carry both the moon lander and the command spaceship into lunar orbit, China will be sending them on two separate rockets.
The astronauts will then move from the command spacecraft into the moon lander and descend to the moon's surface, says Zhang Hailian from the China Manned Space Agency.
