Artemis moon missions articles
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2030 moon mission: China’s Shenzhou-18 mission docks with space station, Xinhua reports
By Michael Zhang A spaceship carrying three astronauts from China’s Shenzhou-18 mission safely docked at Tiangong space station Friday, state-run media reported, the latest step in Beijing’s space programme that aims to send astronauts to the Moon by 2030. The crew took off in a capsule atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite […]
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China set to launch sample return mission to the Moon
We have several launches coming up this week, but the most notable will be the Chang'e mission taking off to collect lunar samples and return them to Earth. Read on to learn more about the mission.
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New mission could shed light on the secrets of the moon’s ‘hidden side’
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Over the past few years, competing countries have turned the moon into a hotspot for activity not witnessed since the Apollo 17 astronauts departed from the lunar surface in 1972. In one lunar region, Japan’s “Moon Sniper” mission has beaten the odds and survived three long, frigid lunar nights