China Readies Moon Mission for Launch Next Week

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - 07:00 in Astronomy & Space

The upcoming launch, expected to take place Oct. 23 from China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center, will apparently send an experimental, recoverable probe to lunar orbit and back to validate tech needed for a lunar sample-return mission.

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