China launched its Chang'e 5 lunar mission that will attempt to bring back moon rocks for the first time in four decades in Wenchang, China, on Monday, November 23, 2020.

If successful, the Chang'e 5 mission would allow scientists to study newly obtained lunar material for the first time since the American and Russian missions of the 1960s and 1970s.

The mission is among China's most ambitious as its space program continues to develop since putting a person in space in 2003.

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