Is China’s Next Moon Probe a Preparation for a Manned Lunar Landing?

A future lunar probe could be setting China up for a manned mission next decade. After details were released late last month of the Chang’e 5 mission—a robotic lander that will collect samples from the lunar surface and return them to Earth in 2017—several international observers noticed that it looked like a smaller version of […]

















from WIRED » Science http://feeds.wired.com/c/35185/f/661470/s/3c65c5fc/sc/2/l/0L0Swired0N0C20A140C0A70Cchina0Emanned0Emoon0Emission0C/story01.htm

via Science News