A Chinese robot probe sent to return lunar rocks to Earth for the first timesince the 1970s landed on the moon, the government announced, adding to astring of increasingly bold space missions by Beijing.
A Chinese robot probe sent to return lunar rocks to Earth for the first timesince the 1970s landed on the moon, the government announced, adding to astring of increasingly bold space missions by Beijing.
A rocket carrying the Chang'e-6 probe will collect lunar soil and rock samples during its 53-day mission.
China becomes only the third country to have retrieved samples from the Moon following the US and the Soviet Union in the 1960s and..