Chinese spacecraft returns after flying around the moon BEIJING — China on Saturday successfully recovered an experimental spacecraft that flew around the moon and back in a test run for the countrys first unmanned return trip to the lunar surface. The eight-day trip marked the first time in almost four decades that a spacecraft has returned to Earth after traveling around the moon. China plans to send a spacecraft to the moon in 2017 and have it return to Earth after collecting soil samples. See also: Who Owns the Moon? If successful, that future mission would make burgeoning space power China only the third country after the United States and Russia to meet such a challenge. Read more... More about China, Moon, Us World, World, and Space #socialmedia
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:39:33 +0000