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Chang’e-5 Starts Its Journey Home

Dec. 3, 2020 (EIRNS)—The Chang’e-5 ascender has launched from the Moon, the first Chinese take-off from an extraterrestrial body, and has reached lunar orbit where it is to rendezvous with the orbiter and deliver its samples to the returner for delivery back to Earth, perhaps the trickiest part of the trip. While on the Moon, it deployed the national flag before leaving.

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