China Successfully Launches Chang’e-5 Mission to Retrieve Lunar Samples

China has successfully launched the Chang’e-5 space mission to collect lunar samples, making it the third country in the world to make such an attempt. If completed, this would be the first time that humans bring back rocks and dirt samples from the moon since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 robotic probe in 1976.

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