A Long March 5 rocket fuelled by liquid oxygen and hydrogen has taken off from China on a lunar mission.
According to the China National Space Administration (CNSA), the Chang’e-6 probe was successfully launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, and the rocket separated 37 minutes into the flight.
The 53-day mission is billed as ‘the world’s first sample return journey on the far side of the Moon’, and the pre-selected landing and sampling area is the South Pole-Aitken Basin.
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