Chang'e 5 returns home with lunar samples

A recovery staff member works at the landing site of the return capsule of Chang'e-5 probe in Siziwang banner, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on Dec 17, 2020. [Photo by Wang Jiangbo/For China Daily]

China's most sophisticated and challenging space adventure – the Chang'e 5 robotic lunar mission – ended successfully early Thursday morning with its load of rocks and dust from the moon landing on the grasslands in northern China.

The China National Space Administration said in a statement that Chang'e 5's reentry capsule touched down on its preset landing site in Siziwang banner of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region at 1:59 am.

The recovery team will make initial processing of the capsule and then use a plane to transport it to Beijing where it will be opened for technicians to remove the container holding lunar samples, the administration said.

The reentry and landing started around 1 am when mission controllers uploaded high-accuracy navigation data to the orbiter-reentry capsule combination that was traveling around the Earth.

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百度翻译：

嫦娥五号带着月球样本返回家园

2020年12月17日，中国北方内蒙古自治区四子王旗，一名回收人员在嫦娥五号探测器返回舱着陆点工作。[王江波摄/中国日报]

中国最复杂、最具挑战性的太空探险——嫦娥五号机器人月球飞行任务——于周四清晨圆满结束，搭载了月球登陆中国北方草原的岩石和尘土。

中国国家航天局在一份声明中说，嫦娥五号的返回舱于凌晨1点59分降落在内蒙古自治区四子王旗的预定着陆点。

管理部门说，回收小组将对太空舱进行初步处理，然后用飞机将其运送到北京，在那里，技术人员将打开太空舱，取出装有月球样本的容器。

当任务控制人员将高精度导航数据上传到绕地球飞行的轨道飞行器再入舱组合体时，返回和着陆开始于凌晨1点左右。