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China probe lands on moon in bid to return lunar rocks to Earth By Press Association 2020 A Long March-5 rocket carrying the Chang’e 5 lunar mission lifts off at the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in Wenchang in southern China’s Hainan Province (Mark Schiefelbein/AP) 0 comment A Chinese robot probe sent to return lunar rocks to Earth for the first time since the 1970s landed on the moon, the government announced, adding to a string of increasingly bold space missions by Beijing. The Chang’e 5 probe “successfully landed†at its planned site, state TV and news agencies reported, citing the...
