SHANGHAI: A Chinese probe carrying samples from the lunar surface successfully docked on Sunday with a spacecraft orbiting the moon, in another space first for the nation, state media reported.
The cargo capsule's departure from the lunar surface on Thursday was also a first: the first liftoff of a Chinese craft from an extraterrestrial body.The capsule transferred the moon samples to the orbiter, which will separate and return to Earth, Xinhua said. Its space agency said previously that"before liftoff, the Chinese flag was raised on the moon's surface".
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