An unmanned Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon returned safely to Earth early Thursday in the first mission in four decades to collect lunar samples, the Xinhua news agency said.
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https://phys.org/news/2020-12-chinese-space-probe-lunar-samples.html