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China Lands Spacecraft on ‘Dark’ Side of Moon in World First

BEIJING — China's burgeoning space program achieved a first on Thursday: a landing on the so-called dark side of the moon that brings the country closer to its goal of becoming a space power. Three nations — the United States, the former Soviet Union and more recently China — have...

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