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China Harvests First Crop of Rice From Seeds That Were in Space

Scientists have been growing rice for over four months at the South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou. In total, two thousand one-centimeter sprouts have grown. China calls it "space rice."

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The World's Largest Planetarium Is Now Open in Shanghai

The construction of the world's largest planetarium began in November 2016. The total area of the main building is 38 thousand square meters, and the entire complex measures 58.6 thousand square meters.

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China Successfully Tested Its Reusable Suborbital Spacecraft

The launch vehicle with the prototype of the spacecraft that is being developed was launched from the Jiuquan cosmodrome on July 16. The spacecraft made a horizontal landing at the Alxa Right Banner Badanjilin Airport after a suborbital flight.

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Chinese Zhurong Rover Traveled Over 400 Meters on Mars

The main goal of the mission is to detect possible signs of life on Mars, as well as to help investigate the question of future changes of these conditions. This will help scientists understand whether Mars will become suitable for human life.

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China to Send First Crewed Mission to Mars in 2033

China is working on a space program that involves five crewed flights to Mars until 2043. The first is scheduled for 2033. In the future, the country wants to create a permanent base on the planet for humans to live there.

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Chinese Astronauts Execute First Spacewalk Near China's New Station

China's Central Television published a video of Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo emerging from the airlock as the Earth revolves beneath them. The third crew member, Commander Nie Haisheng, stayed inside.

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China Sent Astronauts to Its Orbital Station for the First Time in 5 Years

The spacecraft with three taikonauts on board successfully launched to the Tianhe space station, which China is building in low-earth orbit on its own. This is the PRC's first manned flight since 2016.

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Chinese Rover Zhurong Began the Exploration of Mars

The main goal of the mission is to find possible traces of life on Mars and help scientists understand if conditions on the Red Planet may change in the future so that it becomes suitable for human life.

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China's Tianwen-1 Probe Successfully Landed on Mars

Tianwen-1 landed in the southern part of the Utopia Planitia in the northern hemisphere of Mars. It consists of an orbital module, a landing platform, and the Zhurong rover. The latter will soon begin to investigate the geology of the landing area.

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China Launches Core Tianhe Module to Build Its Own Space Station

Tiangong is slated for completion in 2022 and is expected to operate for 10 years. However, according to experts, the station can last more than 15 years with proper repair. It will operate in low Earth orbit, at altitudes ranging from 340 km to 450 km.

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Russia and China to Create an International Scientific Lunar Space Station

As indicated in the statement of Roskosmos, the international scientific lunar station will become a complex of experimental research facilities created on the surface and/or in the orbit of the Moon.

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China's Fast Telescope to Open to the Scientific Community on April 1

Only Chinese scientists have had access to FAST, but now scientists from other countries will be able to take advantage of this system.

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Chinese Tianwen-1 Probe Traveled 400 Million Kilometers to Reach Mars Orbit in February

The Chinese probe for exploration of Mars, Tianwen-1, covered about 400 million km in 163 days and will reach the orbit of the Red Planet in February.

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Chang'e 5 Mission Has Successfully Returned to Earth With Moon Samples

China became the third country after the USA and the USSR that managed to take and deliver samples of lunar soil to Earth.

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Chang'e 5 Ascender Successfully Docked With the Orbital Module

Under favorable conditions, the orbital module should burn up in the atmosphere, and the returner should get back to Earth with lunar soil samples.

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Chinese Chang'e 5 Probe Successfully Landed on the Moon

The landing module of the Chinese automatic station Chang'e 5 has successfully reached the lunar surface and landed in the area of Mons Rümker.

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China Launches a Historic Mission to Bring Moon Samples to Earth

If successful, this mission would make China the third country to retrieve Moon materials, after the United States and the former Soviet Union.