Then, in late 2020, the Chang'e-5 mission landed on the near side of the Moon and successfully collected 1.7 kg of rocks.

China launched an uncrewed lunar mission Friday that aims to bring back samples from the far side of the moon for the first ...

China on Friday launched a mission to collect samples from the moon's hidden side, a first in space exploration history, and ...

The Chang’e-6 lunar probe is aiming to collect samples from an area of critical interest and return to Earth with the ...

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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.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told NPR he sees the U.S. in an urgent race with China to find water on the moon, and that he ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told NPR he sees the U.S. in an urgent race with China to find water on the moon, and that he ...

The competition poses ‘major military implications for the U.S.,’ a professor of space policy says. ‘There is the danger that ...

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 ...

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 (CNSA) Center of Lunar ...