China reveals names of new manned moon spaceship and lander

Two Long March-10 carrier rockets will send the Mengzhou spaceship and the Lanyue moon lander into lunar orbit. - PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: PIXABAY

BEIJING (Bloomberg): China’s space agency has unveiled the names of a new manned spaceship and a moon lander for its mission to send astronauts to the moon before 2030.

The new crew spaceship is named Mengzhou, which means dream vessel in Chinese, according to a statement from China Manned Space Agency Saturday.