China is launching its first lunar probe in early December, state-run Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday, just over a decade after the country first sent an astronaut into space.
The Chang’e-3 probe — which will blast off from a Long March 3B rocket in Sichuan province located in southwest China — is expected to land on the moon’s surface in mid-December, a spokesman for the China’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence told Xinhua.
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