This week China will launch a new lunar orbiter, which, in contrast with previous space probes, will return to Earth after orbiting the Moon, China’s official Xinhua news agency reports.
Ye Peijian, senior adviser to the China Academy Of Space Technology talked to Xinhua about the probe earlier this month: “After we are able to have probes return to earth, we’ll study and move to possible manned lunar missions,” adding that “China started late in the space race. We never had astronauts in the lunar missions. But we have good technology for manned space missions.”
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