China's Chang'e-5 mission to bring lunar rock samples to Earth was completed yesterday (17th), China's National Space Administration said. The sample capsule landed in the autonomous region of Mongolia in northern China, including Beijing, in the early hours of the morning. Sung Kejiang, head of China's National Space Agency, said the mission was successful in carrying unmanned lunar rock samples. Operation Chang'e5 is the first to carry lunar rock samples since 1976. It will be operated by China as a four-stage operation, including an orbiter in lunar orbit, a lander landing on the lunar surface, an Ascend spacecraft returning to orbit above it, and a return spacecraft to return samples to Earth. According to the agency, the return spacecraft carrying rock samples from the moon entered the Earth's atmosphere at around 1.33 am Beijing time yesterday. It was flying at a speed of 11.2 kilometers per hour. The spacecraft, which has been hit twice in the atmosphere,...
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