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China’s spacecraft takes off from moon with samples – CCTV
A Chinese spacecraft carrying the country’s first lunar samples blasted off from the moon at 11:10 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday, the China National Space Administration…

— The ascender of China’s Chang’e-5 probe, carrying lunar samples, completes the country’s first-ever takeoff from an extraterrestrial body.
— Different from the ground takeoff, the lunar liftoff conquered many challenges.
— The ascender is expected to complete the unmanned rendezvous and docking with the orbiter-returner in lunar orbit, an unprecedented feat.
BEIJING, Dec. 3 — A Chinese spacecraft carrying the country’s first lunar samples blasted off from the moon at 11:10 p.m. (Beijing Time)…
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