China to launch probe to collect moon rock

By Ryan Woo
Updated November 22 2020 - 4:29pm, first published 4:25pm
China will this week launch an unmanned spacecraft to collect rock samples from the moon.
China will this week launch an unmanned spacecraft to collect rock samples from the moon.

China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth's natural satellite since the 1970s.

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