December 17, 2020

Carrying around 2 kilograms of lunar samples, China's Chang'e-5 safely landed at its designated landing area in Siziwang Banner, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region around 2 am Thursday, bringing the craft's epic round trip between Earth and its celestial neighbor located some 380,000 kilometers away to a perfect conclusion. 

According to the China's National Space Administration on early Thursday morning, the spacecraft's safe landing marks the successful completion of the country's first ever lunar material retrieving mission.

The CNSA said in a statement provided to the Global Times on Thursday morning that the retrieved re-entry capsule of Chang'e-5 will be transferred by air to Beijing, where it will be opened and the lunar sample container it carries will be taken out.

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