China says it landed its first experimental reusable spacecraft after a two-day flight


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China says it landed its first experimental reusable spacecraft after a two-day flight Nickie Louise Posted On September 7, 2020 Share On Facebook In its continued effort to catch up with the United States, China announced on Sunday it has successfully launched and landed an experimental reusable spacecraft. Lauded the achievement as an “important breakthrough,” China state-run Xinhua news agency said the spacecraft was launched on a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan launch center located in Inner Mongolia on Friday. The spacecraft spent two days in orbit and returned to the scheduled landing site on Sunday, Xinhua said. The...