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China’s ‘space dream’: A long march to the moon – The Japan Times
China’s launch Tuesday of an unmanned spacecraft aimed at bringing back lunar rocks — the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from the moon in
Beijing – China’s launch Tuesday of an unmanned spacecraft aimed at bringing back lunar rocks the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from the moon in four decades underlines just how far the country has come in achieving its “space dream.”
A Long March 5 rocket carrying the Chang’e-5 probe, named after the mythical Chinese moon goddess, blasted off from the Wenchang Space Center on the southern island province of Hainan at 4:30 a.m., the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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