The future giant SpaceX rocket starship – which the company hopes will go on its way to a Mars mission – crashed in a fiery explosion during a test launch off the coast of Texas on Wednesday. But the company line was very excited because the live stream of the …
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BEIJING (AP) – China on Thursday said its latest lunar probe has finished taking samples of the moon’s surface and sealed the inside of the spacecraft to return to Earth, the first such attempt by any country in more than 40 years. Chang 5, the third Chinese probe into landing …
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BEIJING (AP) – China’s third landing on the moon is part of an increasingly ambitious space program that includes a robot rover heading to Mars, developing a reusable aircraft and plans to return humans to the lunar surface. The first attempt to bring lunar rocks to Earth since the 1970s, …
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China on Monday launched its most ambitious lunar mission yet: a robotic spacecraft is expected to land on the lunar surface by the end of the week. About 4 pounds of rock and soil samples will be collected by the spacecraft and they are expected to return to Earth next …
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WENCHANG, China (AP) – Chinese technologists have been making final preparations for a mission to bring material back from the lunar surface for the first four years since Monday – an undertaking that could accelerate human understanding of the moon and solar system more generally. Chang 5 – Named after …
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