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China launches probe to the far side of the moon, revving up space race with U.S.
China launched its Chang’e 6 lunar probe on Friday in a first-of-its-kind mission to bring back samples from the far side of the moon.
China's missions to the moon - past, present and future
China on Friday launched a mission to collect samples from the moon's hidden side, a first in space exploration history, and marked a new phase in China's 20-year-old Chang'e lunar programme, named after the mythical moon goddess.
Watch live: China launching Chang'e 6 mission to far side of the moon early May 3 (video)
A Long March 5 rocket carrying the Chang'e 6 lunar far side sample return mission is scheduled to launch between 5:17 a.m. EDT (0917 GMT) and 6:18 a.m. EDT (1018 GMT) on Friday. The mission will take off from China's Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on the tropical island province of Hainan, off the southeastern coast of mainland China.
China launches ambitious mission to far side of the moon
The launch of the uncrewed Chang’e-6 is part of China’s effort to put a human on the lunar surface by 2030
China is sending its Chang’e 6 spacecraft to the far side of the moon
If all goes well, the Chang’e 6 probe will be the first ever to land on the far side of the moon to take samples and bring them back to Earth
NASA hasn’t landed on the Moon in decades—China just sent its third in six years
Chang'e-6 builds upon the Chinese space program's successful lunar program. In 2019, the Chang'e-4 mission made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon, the first time this had ever been done by a spacecraft. The far side is more challenging than the near side, because line-of-sight communications are not possible with Earth.
What to know as China attempts to be 1st country to return samples from far side of the moon
China will launch a mission in an attempt to be the first country to return rock and soil samples from the far side of the moon.
China launches lunar probe in first-of-its-kind mission to get samples from far side of the moon as "space race" with U.S. ramps up
It is the latest advance in China's increasingly sophisticated space exploration program, which is now competing with the U.S.
China launches rocket to far side of the Moon
China has launched a probe which intends to collect the first samples from the far side of the Moon. An unmanned rocket carrying the Chang'e-6 probe blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center at about 17:27 local time (10:27 BST).
China is sending a probe to get samples from the less-explored far side of the moon
China is preparing to launch a lunar probe that would land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the bet
China to launch world-first mission to retrieve samples from far side of moon
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