China launches mission to the far side of the moon

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China on Friday (May 3) launched an uncrewed spacecraft on a nearly two-month mission to retrieve rocks and soil from the far side of the moon, the first country to make such an ambitious attempt.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/58f33hck  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 3, 2, 1, ignition!

00:04 China on Friday launched an uncrewed spacecraft on a nearly two-month mission

00:09 to retrieve rocks and soil from the far side of the moon,

00:13 the first country to make such an ambitious attempt.

00:17 The Long March-5, China's largest rocket, blasted off at 0527 Beijing time

00:23 from Wenchang Space Launch Center on the southern island of Hainan

00:28 with the more than eight-metric tonne Chang'e-6 probe.

00:32 The Chang'e-6 aims to collect around 2 kilograms of lunar samples

00:37 from the far side of the moon and bring them back to Earth for analysis.

00:42 It is a technically complex 53-day mission

00:46 that will also see it attempt an unprecedented launch

00:50 from the side of the moon that always faces away from Earth.

00:54 NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

01:00 California Institute of Technology

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