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Chang'e 5 almost back with precious moon rock dw.com 12/16/2020 Zulfikar Abbany For the first time since the mid-1970s, a spacecraft will return to Earth with rocks and soil samples from our moon. © China National Space Administrat/AFP/Getty Images Provided by Deutsche Welle China's Chang'e 5 spacecraft is nearing the end of its mission after a three-week roundtrip to the moon and back to Earth. The spacecraft's re-enter capsule is due to land, carrying 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of ground samples from the moon, in Inner Mongolia during the night of December 16 to 17. It is...

Change 5 Orbital, Return Modules successfully carry out orbital correction : CNSA Beijing, Dec 14: China’s Chang’e 5 orbiter-returner has successfully carried out the first Moon-Earth transfer orbit correction, the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said in a statement. “On December 14, at 11:13, two 25N engines of the block of orbital and return modules, having worked for 28 seconds, successfully completed the first correction in the Moon-Earth transfer orbit,” the statement says. On Sunday, CNSA announced that the orbiter-ret...

China's Chang'e 5 mission: Sampling the lunar surface Space 12/10/2020 Adam Mann © Provided by Space An artist's illustration of China's Chang'e 5 moon sample-return spacecraft. The Chang'e 5 lunar mission is the Chinese National Space Administration's (CNSA) effort to send a robotic spacecraft to the moon to collect samples and return them to Earth for scientific study. It's China's first attempt at a sample-return mission, and will be the first probe to bring back material from the moon since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 mission in 1976. Chang'e 5 is part of the CNSA's Ch...