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China Lands on the Moon - Sort of [Space Exploration]

Variety SF found this 3/4/2009 on io9.com

On Sunday, the Chinese space program announced that their satellite, Chang'e-I, ended its 16 month mapping mission with a planned crash on the lunar surface, destroying the craft. Chang'e-I was the first part of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program , an orbital mission, which was designed to ...