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China lunar mission: Spacecraft sets off on moon sample quest

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China hailed as a success its pre-dawn launch on Tuesday of a robotic spacecraft to bring back rocks from the moon in the first bid by any country to retrieve lunar surface samples since the 1970s, a mission underscoring Chinese ambitions in space. FRANCE 24's Charles Pellegrin tells us more.

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