But the next spacecraft to head to the Moon may be China's Chang'e-6, which will attempt to add more to the country's stash of lunar rocks and soil. The China National Space Administration announced that the launch is scheduled to take place sometime during the first half of this year. Chang'e-6 is essentially a repeat of Chang'e-5, which in 2020 returned the first collection of lunar samples to Earth since the 1970s.
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The 1969 landing resulted in part from the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the then-Soviet Union. Days before Odysseus' landing, it was reported that Russia, in a new twist on ancient tensions, was developing a nuclear space weapon that would destroy satellites by creating a massive energy wave when detonated, potentially crippling commercial and government satellites on which the world depends. In speaking. On mobile, paying bills, browsing the Internet.
Similar reports of superweapons abounded in the 1960s, but now, we're celebrating the United States' return to the moon. The last time they went there gave us so much technological and scientific innovation that it's easy to forget the contribution of space exploration to our lives — trips to the moon gave us fireproof materials, magnetic cards, memory foam, cordless headphones, and cordless drills. And final confirmation that it was not made with green cheese.
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