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Chinese spacecraft completes moon sampling successfully

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China's Chang'e 5 spacecraft, which was sent to gather material from a previously unexplored part of the moon has successfully completed the mission. The Chinese spacecraft is ready to send back the world's first lunar samples in four decades. China aims to have a crewed space station by 2022. Chang'e 5 spacecraft is going to collect two kilograms of material from an area known as Oceanus Procellarum -- or "Ocean of Storms".