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Jun 25, 2024 · The probe landed in the Inner Mongolian region in northern China on Tuesday afternoon. “I now declare that the Chang’e 6 Lunar Exploration Mission achieved complete success,” Zhang Kejian, Director of the China National Space Administration, said in a televised news conference after the landing.
- China calls on scientists of all nations to study lunar samples, but ...
China’s space officials said Thursday they welcomed...
- China calls on scientists of all nations to study lunar samples, but ...
Jun 25, 2024 · The successful mission is a key milestone in China’s “eternal dream” – as articulated by Chinese leader Xi Jinping – to establish the country as a dominant space power and comes as a...
Jun 25, 2024 · “Chang’e-6 is the first mission in human history to return samples from the far side of the moon,” Long Xiao, a planetary geologist at China University of Geosciences, wrote in an email....
Jun 26, 2024 · The Chang'e 6 mission has brought back to Earth the first samples ever collected from the far side of the moon. - Photo: China Daily/ANN.
Jun 27, 2024 · China aims to send a crewed mission to the moon by 2030 and plans to build a base on the lunar surface, while the United States is also planning to put astronauts back on the moon by 2026 with...
1 day ago · China's robotic Chang'e 6 spacecraft delivered samples of rock back to Earth from a huge feature on the moon called the south pole–Aitken basin. After touching down on the moon's "far side," on ...
Jun 27, 2024 · China’s space officials said Thursday they welcomed scientists from across the world to apply to study the lunar rock samples the Chang’e 6 probe brought back to Earth in a historic mission, but noted there were limits to that cooperation, specifically with the U.S.