In pictures: China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center - Xinhua

In pictures: China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center

English.news.cn | 2013-12-01 13:48:56 | Editor: Zhu Ningzhu

Backgrounder: China's "triple jump" progress in lunar probes

Backgrounder: Timeline of China's lunar program

(Source: chinamil.com.cn)

XICHANG, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- China will launch the Chang'e-3 lunar probe to the moon at 1:30 a.m. Monday from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, the mission's launching headquarters said here Saturday.

It will be the first time for China to send a spacecraft to soft land on the surface of an extraterrestrial body, where it will conduct surveys on the moon. Full story

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