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China on Friday embarked on one of its most ambitious space missions yet: the launch of a probe to retrieve samples from the ...

China's advancing space exploration program has launched a new lunar probe to explore the far side of the moon. China has its own space station and conceptual plans for a moon base.

China’s potential return to the moon marks a significant development in international efforts to establish a permanent presence there. As the US moves forward with its Artemis program missions ...

China hopes to return samples from the far side of the moon in a mission that started Friday with the unmanned rocket launch from the Wenchang Space Launch Center.

Chang’e 6 is set to take off aboard a Long March 5 rocket from China’s Wenchang Satellite ... massive objects have pelted the ...

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take-off and ascent technologies, and automatic sample-return on the far side of the moon,” Ge Ping, deputy director of the China National Space Administration’s Center of Lunar Exploration and Space ...

We call the half of the Moon we never see the far side, and it has been a topic for many speculations, works of literature, and movies over ... China launched the Chang'e program in 2007 and by 2030 ...

China is leading the construction of the International Lunar Research Station, which is intended to take shape in the mid-2030s at the Moon’s south pole for scientific exploration and resource ...

They will take over for the Shenzhou 17 crew ... "Their prototype production and tests are in full swing." China's crewed moon landing mission is part of the country's larger plan to establish ...

Nasa has warned that China may attempt to take over parts of the Moon within just a few years. The space agency’s administrator Bill Nelson said he fears the country’s civilian programmes ...