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The Chinese mission has managed to collect lunar samples for the first time in four decades. A Chinese spacecraft was able to safely return from the moon Thursday with dirt and rocks.
Xinhua quoted the China National Space Administration (CNSA) as saying.
The spacecraft landed under the Sijiwang banner in the country’s northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
This is the first time a lunar spacecraft has returned to Earth since the 1960s.
China launched the Chang’e spacecraft on November 24. The spacecraft had an orbiter designed to enter lunar orbit, a lunar spacecraft, and two other spacecraft capable of landing and bringing the lunar spacecraft back to the moon.
At 11:11 pm local time on December 1, the spacecraft landed near the moon, north of the area known as the Storm Ocean.
Pang Jing, deputy chief designer of the China Academy of Space Technology Chang’e Mission under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, said Chang’e was the first mission to collect lunar samples from Earth in 44 years.
After Russia and the United States, China has spent billions of dollars trying to conquer space. Xinhua described the latest mission as the most complex and challenging in China’s space history.
Meanwhile, Thomas Jur Buchen, a senior NASA science mission official, congratulated China on the safe return of the spacecraft to Earth.
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