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China targets lunar missions

10 Jul 2017

With China about to send the first ever craft to the far side of the Moon, the country is quickly becoming a global leader in lunar exploration, as Ling Xin reports

Artist impression of China's lunar mission
Fly me to the Moon China is set to launch two lunar probes within the next 18 months – one to the Moon’s far side and the other a sample return mission. (Courtesy: CNSA)
When Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former US national security assistant, visited Beijing in 1978 he presen

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Ling Xin is a science writer based in Beijing
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