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China prepping for mission to bring back material from moon

by Sam McNEIL
| November 23, 2020 3:03 AM

WENCHANG, China (AP) — Chinese technicians were making final preparations Monday for a mission to bring back material from the moon's surface for the first time in more than four decades — an undertaking that could boost human understanding of the moon and of the solar system more generally.

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