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China: launched the first Moon satellite Chang'e-1

Xichang, China - An ambitious programme that provides for the send of the first Chinese astronaut within 2020

People's Republic of China launched today October 24th, 2007, its first lunar probe Chang'e-1, so proposing to carry out the first step towards an ambitious lunar mission that provides to send on the Moon the first Chinese astronaut within 2020. a new milestone in the history of the space explorations of the Asian Country. The circumlunar satellite Chang'e-1 blasted off on a Long March-3A carrier...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1081165
Rome, Italy, 10/24/2007 15:56
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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