Watch: China launches its first spacecraft to retrieve soil samples from the moon
The unmanned mission is expected to collect rocks and other samples.
A giant leap for China's space exploration. China Tuesday launched a spacecraft to collect and return samples from the moon, the country's 1st attempt to retrieve samples from an extraterrestrial body. #LunarProbe pic.twitter.com/sxLQsrEJAX
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) November 24, 2020