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Officials did not provide further information.
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China Launched the Long March 5 rocket with the Chang’e 5 spacecraft into space from Wenchan landfill in China’s Hainan province.
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The goal of the mission is to collect samples on the moon and bring them back to Earth.
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It is planned that Chang’e 5 will penetrate the surface of the Moon and collect a total of two kilograms of samples.
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This is the most ambitious lunar mission China has ever undertaken. Last year, the Chinese self-propelled robot “Chang’e-4” landed on the dark side of the moon.
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The last space mission to take samples from the moon to Earth took place in August 1976, when the Soviet spacecraft “Luna-24” brought 170.1 grams of lunar samples.
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China launched its first independent mission to Mars in July.
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China plans to build its own space station by 2022 and send a fact-finding mission to Jupiter by 2029.
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