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Chang’e-5: China completes first docking in lunar orbit

By DW
11 December 2020   |   11:00 am
A Chinese probe carrying lunar samples back to earth for the first time in almost 45 years has docked with a spacecraft orbiting the moon. The maneuver was part of the ambitious Chang'e-5 mission.

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