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China has outlined plans for an upcoming flight to the Moon, The Guardian reports:
The spacecraft will consist of four distinct parts: a lander and an ascender, an orbiter and a returner. The lander will descend to the surface of the Moon, collect the samples and place them in the ascender. This will launch and rendezvous with the orbiter and returner, all of which will then journey back towards Earth.
The samples will be transferred to the returner, which will detach from the orbiter and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
Chang'e-5 is expected to be launched in November 2017.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 26 2017, @08:59PM
no.
space is vaste. like YUGE! i mean huge!
it is terrible single-minded to try and do it alone. everything iN space made by humans (on earth with earth resources) should, no! MUST! interact and be interface-able by anything else human made it encounter in space (afterall it was made by a part of the planet and it has been launched .. out there).
the real challenge is to find THE PERFECT "system"(*) laid down by the universe for humans. the first to discover will rule the world .. albeit not by money but by idea : )
(*) we have centimeters, something else, and then soemthing else again and then maybe inches? we have red, blue, yellow, we have, x64, x32, arm, mips, etc etc ... surely also alot over other things that paid money to be close to the source of standard creation but we can only cost along for so loong on a WRONG standard until the obvious becomes ... welll UNIVERSAL for HUMANkind because ... we are humans (not chickens or dolphine tho we might like them to survive also?) but we are flexible but we still strive for rigid.