China's 'space dream': A Long March to the Moon
Beijing (AFP) Nov 24, 2020
China's launch this week of an unmanned spacecraft aimed at bringing back lunar rocks - the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from the Moon in four decades - underlines just how far the country has come in achieving its "space dream". Beijing has poured billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022 and of eventually sendin