Chinas moon plan mirrors NASAs, except for one big difference

China's plan to land people on the moon by 2030 mirrors NASA's on paper but skips crewed lunar test flights, trusting robotic rehearsals for its first human landing instead.Chinese space officials laid out their approach at the 7th Manned Space Symposium in Beijing on Oct. 31, according to Xinhua, the Chinese government's wire service. A slide reportedly from the presentation posted by CNSpaceflight, an independent outlet that tracks the Chinese space program, shows two of the initial missions w