When American astronauts landed on the moon in 1969, one of their first tasks — after grabbing a handful of moon rocks in ...

This payload, a scientific outreach project, will accompany the Chang'e 7 probe to the lunar south pole, aiming to use ...

So the design included not just an upright pole ... carried some sort of flag or identification. China’s Chang’e 6 mission even carried a flag made of basalt, a type of rock common on the ...

Research work on building China's Chang'e 7 lunar exploration mission includes sending a flag that can flutter in the moon's thin and tenuous atmosphere. "We know that the moon is vacuum with no ...

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