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Lanyue lander successfully completes comprehensive landing and takeoff test, marking critical milestone for China’s manned lunar exploration: CMSA


Global Times learned from the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Thursday that China’s Lanyue lander successfully completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test at the extraterrestrial landing test site in Huailai county, North China’s Hebei Province on Wednesday. This test, the CMSA said, marks China's first landing and takeoff experiment for a manned spacecraft on an extraterrestrial body.

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