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 ...
The lunar mission was launched last month to collect samples from the far side of the moon, the first attempt of its kind.
China’s Chang’e 6 robotic mission to retrieve samples from the Moon’s far side launched on Friday, marking a milestone in the country’s ambitious plans to put boots on the lunar surface by ...
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 ...
TOKYO -- China on Friday launched its latest mission to the moon, aiming for the side that faces away from Earth and upping the ante on the U.S. and other players. The Chang'e 6 probe lifted off ...
China has landed on the moon’s far side for a second time, and will soon start collecting rock samples from the oldest lunar ...
China has launched the world’s first mission to collect samples from the far side of the moon. If successful, the material gathered could provide answers to the history of the moon, the solar ...
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 ...
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.