China brings moon rocks to Earth, and a new era of competition to space
Dec 20, 2020
3 minutes
STEVEN LEE MYERS and KENNETH CHANG
china central Television (ccTV)
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ChINA might have been a latecomer to the moon, but when its capsule full of lunar rocks and soil returned to Earth early on Thursday, it set the stage for a new space race over the coming decades. This time, it will be a competition over resources on the moon that could propel deeper space exploration.
The country’s Chang’e-5 spacecraft gathered as
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