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In Pictures: China’s moon mission milestone | Gallery – Aljazeera.com

Latest trip to the moon is another milestone in the Asian powerhouse’s slow but steady ascent to the stars.

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China launched an ambitious mission on Tuesday to bring back rocks and debris from the moons surface for the first time in more than 40 years an undertaking that could boost human understanding of the moon and solar system.
The Long March-5, Chinas largest carrier rocket, blasted off at 4:30am Beijing time (20:30 GMT on Monday) in a launch from Wenchang Space Launch Center on the southern Chinese island of Hainan carrying the Change-5 spacecraft.
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) called…

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