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| doi:10.1038/450012a
Updated online: 31 October 2007
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China blasts off on lunar exploration
Chang'e mission heads for the Moon.
China's Moon exploration programme has kicked off with the launch of its first lunar orbiter. Launched on 24 October from Sichuan province in southwest China, the orbiter is a small step in an ambitious, and not yet official, plan to send astronauts to the Moon sometime after 2020.
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Even if the Chang'e reaches the moon it will be late by over 30 years and there will be no landing