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A Chinese robot probe sent to return lunar rocks to Earth for the first time since the 1970s landed on the moon Tuesday, the government announced, adding to a string of increasingly bold space missions by Beijing . The Changࢀ™e 5 probe ࢀœsuccessfully landedࢀ at its planned site, state TV and news agencies reported, citing the China National Space Administration. They didnࢀ™t immediately announce any more details. The probe, launched Nov. 24 from the tropical southern island of Hainan, is the latest venture by a Chinese space program that fired a human into orbit in 2003, has a probe en…