China moves to gather samples from moon’s unexplored areas

China has moved to become the first country on Earth to retrieve samples from moon’s previously unexplored areas using an unmanned spacecraft.

At 4:00 p.m. local time on Friday (4:00 a.m. ET), a Long March 5 rocket carrying the 8.2-ton Chang’e 6 spacecraft is expected to take off from the nation’s southernmost spaceport, the Wenchang Space Launch Site on the subtropical island of Hainan.

It is expected that the probe will land in the Apollo crater on the moon’s larger South Pole-Aitkin basin.

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