02 November 2014

The head of China's lunar probe program has called for a thorough analysis of data collected from the test lunar orbiter, which returned Saturday, to speed up work on Chang'e-5, the star of the 2017 lunar mission. With the test lunar orbiter landing early Saturday in north China after an eight-day flight, China joined the Soviet Union and the United States and became the third nation to realize a return mission to the Moon.

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Read a short statement of Yang Mengfei, the commander-in-chief for the lunar exploration program at the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, on the CAST website.