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Beijing, Dec 17 (EFE/EPA).- China's Chang'e-5 mission landed early Thursday in the northern province of Inner Mongolia with rocks and dust collected earlier this month from the moon, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) reported."Chang'e-5's reentry capsule touched down on its preset landing site in Siziwang banner of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region at 1.59 am (17:59 GMT Wednesday)," CNSA said in a statement. (Camera: WU HONG).SHOT LIST: A PRESS CONFERENCE HELD BY THE STATE COUNCIL INFORMATION OFFICE ABOUT CHINA'S CHANG'E-5 MISSION OF CHINA LUNAR EXPLORATION PROGRAM, IN BEIJING, CHINA.
Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 Contingency Lunar Sample Return bag will go up for auction on July 20, at Sotheby's New York to mark the 48th anniversary of the historic moon landing and it could sell for a stratospheric price - the sample bag is expected to fetch over 4 million dollars. Used by Neil Armstrong to collect the first ever samples of the moon on his Apollo 11 mission, the bag still contains traces of moon dust to this day.
Final preparations are underway for the launch of the first American spacecraft to attempt a lunar landing in more than 50 years, under a new partnership between NASA and private industry. United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket was rolling out to the launchpad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, preparing for its maiden flight set to blast off on Monday at 2:18 am local time (7:18 GMT). IMAGES
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The Artemis program marks the first step in the new era of human exploration. Together with commercial and international partners like JAXA, NASA hopes to establish a sustainable presence on the Moon to launch missions to Mars. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Toyota are also contributing to the programme. MHI will do so through the development of the LUPEX – acronym in English for the Lunar Polar Expedition – and Toyota through the joint development of a manned lunar rover with JAXA. With this "Lunar Cruiser", Toyota hopes to apply the honed technologies used in the extreme conditions of the Moon on Earth.
NASA unveils its Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 2 space mission, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral in Florida. The mission scheduled for late 2024, will take a crew of four astronauts to the Moon. IMAGES
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