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China Launches Moon Rover Mission

China has launched its first lunar rover, in an attempt to make the first soft landing on the moon since 1976. From the New York Times: If successful, the Chang’e-3 mission will be China’s first “soft landing” on the moon — which allows a craft to operate after descending — and the first such landing by any country since 1976, when the Soviet Union sent a probe. The United States is the other country that has mastered soft lunar landings, and the last American expedition on the moon�