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December 22 , 2020 1439 days 805 0
  • Chinese lunar capsule Chang’e 5 has landed to the earth in the inner Mongolia with 2 kgs fresh samples of Rock and Debris from moon.
  • Chang'e 5 blasted off from a launch base in China's province of Hainan on November 23.
  • It marked China's third successful lunar landing but the only one to lift off again from the moon.
  • It is the first sample collection of the moon by any country since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 mission in 1976.
  • In 2003, China became the third country to send an astronaut into orbit on its own after the Soviet Union and the United States.
  • In 2019, the Chang’e 4 became the first man-made probe to land on the far side of the moon.

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