China has landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon to collect soil and rock samples and bring them back to Earth for ...
WENCHANG, China (Reuters) - China on Friday launched an uncrewed spacecraft on a nearly two-month mission to retrieve rocks and soil from the far side of the moon, the first country to make such an ...
Probe lands on the South Pole-Aitken basin and will start collecting the first samples from this part of the moon.
Chang'e-6 landed in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, a massive impact crater on the moon's space-facing side, at 6:23 a.m.
The Chang'e-6 mission successfully launched today, hoping to become the first mission to collect rock and soil samples from the far side of the Moon. The spacecraft will land on the northeastern ...
The Chinese lander will use a mechanical arm and a drill to gather up to 2 kilograms of surface and underground material from ...
A second attempt at launching Boeing’s new Starliner space capsule was aborted with less than four minutes to go, and NASA ...
The lunar mission was launched last month to collect samples from the far side of the moon, the first attempt of its kind.
SINGAPORE—Across China and among the global scientific community, Friday’s launch of a Chinese mission to collect samples from the moon’s far side has been hailed for its potential for a ...
China on Friday successfully launched a 53-day-long lunar probe mission to collect samples for the first time from the far side of the Moon and bring them for scientific studies. The Chang’e-6 ...
Beijing/Wenchang, May 3 (PTI) China on Friday successfully launched a 53-day-long lunar probe mission to collect samples for the first time from the far side of the Moon and bring them for scientific ...