China completes its first-ever docking in lunar orbit

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BEIJING: A Chinese probe carrying lunar rocks and soil samples successfully docked with a spacecraft orbiting the moon this morning.

The cargo capsule transferred the moon samples to the orbiter, which will separate and return to Earth.

If the return journey is successful, China will become only the third country to have retrieved samples from the Moon, following the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s.

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