Posted on 12/03/2020 4:24:32 PM PST by BenLurkin
The small probe, which sat on top of the Chang'e 5 lander, lifted off from Oceanus Procellarum at 10:10 EST Thursday (15:10 GMT/23:10 Beijing time) carrying with it the first fresh lunar samples since 1976.
Six minutes later, the ascent spacecraft achieved lunar orbit, marking a huge milestone in the Chang'e 5 mission to return lunar samples to Earth. The ascent vehicle's job now is to meet up with the Chang'e 5 orbiter while still circling the moon, and then transfer its precious cargo to a return capsule for the journey home.
That next stage is an extremely challenging rendezvousing and docking between the small ascent vehicle and the Chang'e 5 orbiter while orbiting the moon. The activity needs to be automated due to the time delay in communicating across the roughly 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) between the Earth and the moon.
The two spacecraft will begin a final approach sometime on Saturday (Nov. 5)and complete the docking 3.5 hours later. If all goes well, China will then prepare for the final leg of the journey to deliver the first lunar samples to Earth in 44 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
I hope they are wearing masks.
Probably carrying more Biden votes.
After depositing thekeys to the Dominion software codes it owns....
I thought Hollywood had closed that lot down...
If they bring the samples back successfully, the MSM will go bananas. Another triumph for communism, yay!
With technology stolen from the Evil Capitalists.
I guess they meant Dec 5, cause Nov 5 is long past.
Wow, it took only a few weeks to get there, why does it take 44 years to get back?
Only took them 50 plus years to copy and steal US tech...
Slow boat to China?
“Wouldn’t it be great to make everyone think that we’d landed on the moon?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw
Let us test another Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA for the intercept.
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