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The 5 Spacecraft Behind China's Moon Rock Sample Mission

... Space Launch Site in Hainan province. If all goes well, its stable and highly elliptical lunar orbit will see Queqiao-2 spend vast portions ...

NASA hasn't landed on the Moon in decades—China just sent its ...

China is going back to the Moon for more samples. On Friday the country launched its largest rocket, the Long March 5, carrying an orbiter, lander, ascent ...

The U.S.-China lunar race gets real - POLITICO.eu

China's investment in its space program means “it's quite possible that the next human being to the moon will be Chinese rather than from the ...

China just landed on the moon. And it released footage. - Mashable

China's Chang'e-6 spacecraft has landed on the far side of the moon. The Chinese space agency released footage of the event, ...

What the Hell Is China Doing on the Dark Side of the Moon?

While the current, high-profile U.S. moon mission is mired in Trump-era politics, China's keeps plodding forward with fewer bold pronouncements ...

China's Chang'e 6 mission travels back to earth from the ... - YouTube

China's Chang'e lunar probe has taken off from the far side of the moon to return back to earth, according to China's national space agency.

China seeks its own Apollo moment – and more - SpaceNews

... China's efforts are intended to be longterm and sustained. The Chinese choose to go to the Moon, not because it is Hard, but because they ...

China's Chang'e-6 launched successfully — what happens next?

The 53-day odyssey will be the country's most complex and challenging Moon mission. If all goes according to plan, scientists will be examining ...

China Launches Its Most Ambitious Moon Mission Yet | Smithsonian

Head is a veteran planetary explorer, having collaborated on U.S., Russian, and Chinese missions going back to the Apollos and Lunas of the ...

Chang'e 4 - Wikipedia

Chang'e 4 is a robotic spacecraft mission in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program of the CNSA. It made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon, ...

Japan aims to put a man on the moon ahead of China as it partners ...

Beijing plans to send an unmanned lunar probe to the far side of the moon ... Hundreds of thousands of things must go right for any moon mission ...

China Lands Spacecraft on Far Side of the Moon

... moon, pockmarked with craters, gets closer and closer as the lander descends. Chang'e-6, named after the Chinese moon goddess, is the second ...

China's Chang'e 6 Mission Returns to Earth With Rare Moon Rocks

... moon's far side. WSJ's Clarence Leong explains how the weekslong mission moves China ahead in the space race with the U.S. Photo: Bei He ...

China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe returns to Earth with first ... - CBS News

China's Chang'e 6 is the first craft ever to collect soil and rock samples from the side of the moon that faces away from Earth into space.

Next Country to Land Humans on Moon Decides Rules There

NASA was slated to land astronauts on the lunar surface earlier than China but has announced delays. Congressional leaders on Wednesday fretted ...

How to watch live online as China attempts to land on the Moon

... China's space technology – and a massive source of national pride if it comes off. Could it be the beginning of another space race to get ...

Why China Might Beat the U.S. Back to the Moon - Time

China's lavishly funded space program could have taikonauts on the moon ... going to put Chinese astronauts on the moon,” says McCurdy. But the ...

China launches Chang'e 6 lunar probe, revving up space race with US

China achieved its first moon landing in 2013 with the Chang'e 3 mission, which set a lander and rover on the lunar surface to study the moon's ...

China says it found something bizarre and unexpected on the moon

... moon in January, Yutu-2 has been rolling on smoothly, studying the moon's geology as it goes. The rover has already found and analyzed ...

China Launches Moon Mission in Base Race With U.S. - WSJ

China started its lunar-exploration program in 2004, naming it after the Chinese moon goddess, Chang'e. The program has steadily hit milestones.