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Apr 12, 2023 · C hina plans to start building a lunar base in about five years, kicking off with bricks made of moon soil, according to scientists with ties to the project, the South China Morning Post reported ...
Sep 13, 2022 · China's government has officially approved three robotic moon missions that will lay groundwork for a permanent lunar base. The Chang'e program missions in development are progressing well, the ...
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Jan 22, 2020 · China's long-lived lunar robots Chang'e-4 and Yutu-2 are once again at work on the far side of the moon, where they woke up for their 14th day on Jan. 18 and 19 respectively. And those of us here ...
Jan 3, 2019 · China's Chang'e-4 spacecraft successfully landed on the far side of the moon this morning Beijing time, accomplishing a worldwide first in lunar exploration. China's state media confirmed that touchdown occurred at 10:26 a.m. local time; later in the day, the China National Space Administration released the first close-ups of the surface of the ...
Mar 20, 2024 · In 2019, China accomplished the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon with the Chang'e 4 mission, itself a near-duplicate of Chang'e 3, which landed on the near side of the Moon in 2013 ...
Feb 26, 2024 · Hong Kong CNN —. China’s space agency has revealed the names of the spacecraft that it hopes will take Chinese astronauts to the moon by the end of the decade. In a news release over the ...
Dec 1, 2023 · In December 2020, China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission rocketed back to Earth 3.8 pounds (1,731 grams) of lunar rocks and soil from its Oceanus Procellarum exploration site on the near side of the moon.
