The successful return of China's Chang'e-5 with precious Lunar samples is a real technological and scientific success not only for China, but for the globe, Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, the first Romanian astronaut, said Saturday.
"China has a huge potential to do Lunar exploration ... it has made huge progress in very short time, it has set a high, advanced threshold for its Space programs and it is building its own space station. A country that can do that is definitely exceptional," said the astronaut, also former chairperson of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and former president of the Romanian Space Agency.