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China State Media Reports Lunar Probe Landed Back on Earth VOA News KakaoStory December 17, 2020 08:15 Chinese state media says a lunar probe containing the first samples of moon rocks and soil since the moon missions of the 1970s has returned to Earth. Quoting China's space agency, Xinhua news agency on Thursday said the capsule carrying the samples collected by the Chang'e-5 space probe landed in northern China's Inner Mongolia region. With this mission, China became only the third country to have retrieved samples from the moon, following the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1960s and...