BEIJING: China launched early on Friday its first space mission to the moon and back, authorities said, the latest step forward for Beijing’s ambitious program to one day land a Chinese citizen on the Earth’s only natural satellite.
The unnamed, un-manned probe will travel to the moon, fly around it and head back to Earth, re-entering the atmosphere and landing, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) said in a statement.
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