China this Friday launched an unmanned spacecraft to the moon, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua. It is the first time that the country bet on a mission to return, with marked return, and is also a sign that the country has plans to put a man on the moon, something no country has done since 1972.
The spacecraft was launched by a Long March rocket, a center of Sichuan, and is first module with
ability to return to Earth , what will happen after a week in space, orbiting around the Moon, if all goes as planned. One of the
main challenges will be to ensure that the ship slows enough to
reenter the Earth’s atmosphere and land safely in Mongolia.
After last December have sent a probe and a robot – the first landing of the XXI century – this is another step for the Chinese space program, which aims to put into orbit a Chinese space station and send astronauts to the moon by 2020 – or rather taikonauts, as they are called in the country.
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