BEIJING, Dec. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- We start News Hour with the success of China’s Chang’e 3 Lunar Mission. The country's first lunar rover and lander have taken photos of each other on the moon's surface. It came a day after the Chang’e-3 made its soft landing, the first in four decades. And just this morning, China announced plans to retrieve moon samples with the Chang'e 5 in 2017.
The spokesman for the State Adminstration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense says the development of the Chang'e 5 is proceeding smoothly. He says the next stage is unmanned sampling and returning, which will include the Chang'e 5 and 6 missions. The spokesman noted the Chang'e-3 mission has achieved seven technological breakthroughs, including the first time soft-landing, and first time long-distance control of a probe on the lunar surface. He says Sunday's photo session marks the complete success of the Chang'e-3's mission.
BEIJING, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- China expects to gain a scientific understanding of the moon and develop its space technologies through its lunar program, a spokesman said in Beijing on Monday. Full sotry
BEIJING, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- China needs to build a deep space monitoring station abroad because the existing network is not capable of tracking deep space detectors round the clock, a leading scientist said on Monday. Full story
BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Ma Xingrui, chief commander of China's lunar program, announced on Sunday night Chang'e-3 mission a "complete success", after the lander and moon rover successfully took pictures of each other.Full story
Commentary: Chang'e-3's soft landing marks China's hard success
BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- The moon Saturday saw a rare new visitor -- lunar probe Chang'e-3 from China, the third country on earth which achieved a soft landing on it after theUnited Statesand the former Soviet Union.Full story
China's Chang'e-3 lunar probe amazes world
BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's Chang'e-3, which includes its first lunar rover named Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, has successfully soft landed on the Moon Saturday, fulfilling the long-awaited dream of moon landing of the Chinese nation.Full story
Lunar mission: craft to conduct re-entry tests before 2015
BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhuanet) -- An experimental spacecraft will be launched before 2015 to conduct crucial re-entry tests on the capsule to be used in the Chang'e-5 lunar-sample mission, a leading space program official said.Full story
Chinese probe reaches record height in space travel
BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) -- China's space probe Chang'e-2 has flew to an outer space about 50 million km from the Earth, marking a new height in the nation's deep space exploration, Chinese scientists said on Sunday.Fullstory
Lunar probe, space exploration is China's duty to mankind
BEIJING, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- A chief designer with China's second lunar probe project has said that the country's lunar pursuit, while lagging behindRussiaand the United States for more than 40 years, is still important because space exploration is part of the country's responsibility towards mankind.Full story
China calls for int'l cooperation in manned space program
BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese astronaut research and training official Wednesday called for international cooperation to promote the development of manned space technologies.Full story
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