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China lands spacecraft on moon to retrieve lunar surface samples
- Thursday | 3rd December, 2020
BEIJING (Reuters) – China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon’s surface on Tuesday in a historic mission to retrieve lunar surface samples, Chinese state media reported. If the mission is completed as planned, it would make China the third nation to have retrieved lunar samples after the United States and the Soviet Union. The lander vehicle that touched down on the moon’s surface was one of several spacecraft deployed by the Chang’e-5 probe. State broadcaster CCTV said it would start collecting samples on the lunar surface in the next two days. In January last year, the Chang’e-4 probe touched down on the far side of the moon, the first space probe from any nation to do so.
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