China readied to launch a mission Tuesday to become the first nation since the 1970s to retrieve lunar rock. The mission marks a major advance in China’s space program, which has also recently sent a mission to Mars, as the technically challenging route requires complex arrangements to send a probe to the surface of the moon to drill for rock and return back to earth. Details of China’s...
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