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In late November, China launched the unmanned lunar rocket “Chang’e-5”. The goal was to land on the moon and retrieve about two kilos of moonstone.
40 years have passed since the last time someone brought objects from the Moon to Earth.
United States and China
Today, the images of the red flag of China, if they are not waved, at least they are present, appeared on the moon.
The Chinese authorities sent this image of the flag, which is attached to a pole. It should have been taken yesterday, according to the BBC.
The image cannot be completely compared to the iconic images from the 1969 Apollo 11 trip. When America was the first country to land on the moon and Neil Armstrong said a few well chosen words.
The image of Buzz Aldrin on the moon in 1969 will likely remain more familiar than the image today.
Photo: Neil Armstrong / NASA
Since then, another five American flags have been planted, the most recent in 1972, before the Chinese are now there in December 2020.
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According to Chinese state media, the flag will be a tribute to American missions and will be placed just before the unmanned space rocket “Chang’e-5” took off and left the moon.
The rocket has sampled the surface and a rock. This is not the first time that China has landed on the moon. Both “Chang’e-3” and “Chang’e-4”, which took the first pictures of the back of the moon, landed on the moon. But none of them left a flag.
On November 23, China launched “Chang’e-5”, now it is back with moon samples.
For several years, the country has prioritized its space program, and President Xi Jinping has previously spoken out in favor of making China a superpower in space. The country spends billions of crowns or rather yuan on the country’s space program, and they hope to have their own manned space station by 2022.
The first time the moonstone was recovered was on the United States’ first lunar landing in 1969, and the last time was with the Soviet Moon 24 in 1976.
