World News | China Says Probe Sent to Retrieve Lunar Rocks Lands on Moon

Beijing, Dec 1 (AP) A Chinese robot probe launched to return lunar rocks to Earth landed on the moon Tuesday, the government announced.

The Chang'e 5 probe “successfully landed on the moon in the pre-selected landing area,” the official China News Service said, citing space officials. The one-sentence report gave no more details.

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The probe adds to a string of increasingly ambitious missions by a Chinese space program that aims eventually to land a human on the moon. (AP)

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