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- China unfurls its flag on Moon during Chang'e-5 mission.
- China becomes 2nd nation to do so after the USA.
- The US had planted the first flag on the Moon during the Apollo mission in 1969.
- China's Chang'e-5 lunar vehicle finished collecting samples of lunar rocks and soil.
- It was the first lunar sample retrieval mission since the 1970s.
- It became the third spacecraft to successfully land on the Moon in the 21st century.
- The first human-made object to touch the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2, on 1959.
- China is now the third nation in the world, after the United States and the Soviet Union, to collect lunar samples.
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