China launches Chang’e-5 to collect, return moon samples

WENCHANG: China Tuesday launched a spacecraft to collect and return samples from the moon, the country’s first attempt to retrieve samples from an extra-terrestrial body, Xinhua news agency reported. A Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang’e-5 spacecraft, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern island province of Hainan at […]