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NASA has no plans to exchange lunar samples with China

Written by  Jeff Foust Wednesday, 01 September 2021 00:31
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A panorama returned by the Chang'e-5 lander, showing robotic sampling arm and scoop marks in lunar regolith.

NASA currently has no plans to trade any of its Apollo-era lunar samples with those returned by China’s Chang’e-5 mission, although then agency’s chief scientist held out hope for such an exchange in the future.

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