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Chang'e-5: China's unmanned moon probe delivers samples to orbiting space craft
Successful docking will be followed by orbiter separating and returning lunar material to Earth A Chinese probe carrying samples from the lunar surface has successfully docked with a spacecraft orbiting the moon, in another space first for the nation, state media reported.The manoeuvre on Sunday was part of the ambitious Chang’e-5 mission – named after a mythical Chinese Moon goddess – to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades. Continue reading...
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