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A lunar spacecraft, to be used in China’s first return trip to the moon, has arrived at its launch site in Xichang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province.</div>
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The test lunar orbiter will be launched later this year, and will be China’s first attempt at returning a lunar probe back to Earth.</div>
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While many countries have landed probes on the moon, only Russia and the US have successfully conducted a return mission.</div>
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The craft is expected to enter the moon’s orbit, before tests are carried out to see if it can exit the moon’s gravitational pull.</div>
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The test launch will be a precursor to China’s future Chang’e-5 mission that plans to send a rover to collect samples from the moon’s surface before returning to Earth.</div>
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Senior adviser with China Academy of Space Technology, Ye Peijian, said that the next step would be to send humans to the moon.</div>
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“China started late in the space race. We never had astronauts in lunar missions,” said Mr Ye.</div>
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“So after we are able to have probes return to Earth, we’ll study and move to possible manned lunar missions.”</div>
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Last year China soft-landed an unmanned spacecraft on the moon, making it the third country to do so, and the first in 3 decades.</div>
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