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Chang’e-5: China’s unmanned moon probe delivers samples to orbiting spacecraft – The Guardian
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 Change-5 mission named after a mythical Chinese Moon goddess to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades.
The cargo capsule carrying lunar rocks and soil lifted off from the surface on Thursday and docked with the orbiter on Sunday morning, the official Xinhua news…
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