Chang'e-5 lunar mission News
China's Chang'e-5 probe anded in Siziwang Banner in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, at 1:59 AM (local time)
It is China's maiden attempt to retrieve materials from an extra-terrestrial body.
Chang'e-5 is one of the most complicated and challenging missions in China's aerospace history
A Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the moon has begun its journey back to Earth
China becomes the first country to successfully retrieve lunar samples since the 1970s.
A successful landing in Inner Mongolia would make China only the third country to have retrieved lunar samples after the United States and the Soviet Union
Bracing for its ambitious plan to land an unmanned spacecraft on the Moon before returning to Earth, China has shipped a carrier rocket from Tianjin port for a rehearsal of a scheduled Chang'e-5 lunar mission around 2017.
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