China has launched an unmanned spacecraft on Monday which will land on the surface of the Moon and search for lunar rocks.

If the Chang’e-5 mission is successful, China will be the third nation after the United States and the former Soviet Union to bring back samples of the Moon – and the first since the 1970s.

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