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Reports also suggest that China may launch astronauts on a flyby mission to the moon and land people there sometime in the 2020s. NASA’s timeline for putting boots on the moon was 2024 under the Trump administration, while the Biden administration has not yet committed to a deadline. “In other words,” Nelson said Wednesday, “they’re going to be landing humans on the moon. That should tell us something about our need to get off our duff and get our human landing system going vigorously.”