China’s Chang’e-5 mission has arrived safely back on Earth after a successful 3 week mission to the Moon, collecting rocks and soil from the surface, and then retuning. It’s the first time since the 1970s a space mission like this has been completed. China becomes only the 3rd country in the world to successfully collect rocks from the moon.
The mission was launched from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the southern island of Hainan (in the South China Sea) on November 24 using one of China’s Long March 5 rockets to propel the Moon probe on its way.
Very early this morning, the capsule landed in Siziwang Banner, north of China’s Inner Mongolia, according to China’s National Space Administration.
SCREENSHOT: China’s National Space Administration
Chang’e-5 was named after the ancient Chinese goddess of the moon. The Chinese have already…
