China's big robotic moon lander to be a sample-return precursor

HYDERABAD, India - China plans to land a 1,300-kilogram (2,900-pound) lander on the moon in 2015-17 that also would serve as a testbed for a sample-return lander to follow by 2020, one of the China National Space Administration engineers working on the project said here Sept. 28. The Chinese...

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