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Josh Dinner

China's Chang'e 6 mission to collect samples of the far side of the moon enters lunar orbit (video)

A gold-foil-covered cylindrical spacecraft above the moon.

China's most ambitious moon mission yet, Chang'e 6, entered lunar orbit overnight on Tuesday (May 7), setting its sights for a landing on the moon's far side to collect and return samples to Earth.

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