Sentences with phrase «e-5 lunar sample»

China also characterized it as a final test of the new rocket before November's scheduled launch of the Chang» e-5 lunar sample return mission.

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The prospect of samples being returned by Chang» e-5 next year — more than four decades since the last ones were snagged by the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976 — is tremendously exciting for lunar science, says Ian Crawford, a professor of planetary science and astrobiology at Birkbeck College in London.
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