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The engines of the Chang'e 5 probe caught fire 230 km from the surface of the moon early Sunday morning Beijing time before shutting down after 22 minutes while the spacecraft was on its path to Earth, Xinhua said.
China's Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday that a Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the moon has begun its test on Earth, setting China on its way to turning into the first United States to effectively recover samples from the moon. That the seventies
The engines of the Chang'e-5 probe caught fire 230 kilometers (143 miles) from the surface of the moon early Sunday morning, Beijing time, before shutting down after 22 minutes with a Chinese official, Xinhua News Agency said. Spacecraft on its path to Earth National Space Administration Statement.
A profitable landing in Inner Mongolia would make China alone a third of the United States recovering samples from the moon, after the United States and the Soviet Union. The plan was to collect 2 kg (4.4 lb) of samples, although the amount actually collected was not disclosed.
Chang'e-5 was launched on November 24 and landed on the surface of the Moon on December 1. The mission was expected to take about 23 days.
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