China Moon
Credit: Xinhua via The Planetary Society
China’s Xiaofei testbed collected this image of the Moon’s far side, with the Earth beyond, on Oct. 28 during a lunar loop-around flight aimed at validating the reentry technology for the Chang’e-5 sample-return mission scheduled to launch as early as 2017. The tiny sample-recovery spacecraft...
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