China’s first-ever mission to land a rover on the moon has begun its journey to the lunar frontier.
Riding atop a modified Long March 3B rocket, China’s Chang’e 3 moon lander and its rover Yutu toward the moon at 1:30 a.m. Monday local time from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the country’s Sichuan province. It was 12:30 p.m. EST on Dec. 1 at launch time.
If the probe continues on track, Chang’e 3 will land on the lunar surface by mid-December, becoming the first spacecraft to touch down on the moon in more than 37 years. The moon landing mission was the former Soviet Union’s robotic Luna 24 sample return mission in 1976 Read more…
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