The State Council held a press conference on the mission of Chang 'e V of the lunar exploration project on February 7, 2020. Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the National Space Administration and deputy commander of the lunar exploration project, introduced that the Chang 'e-5 returner landed successfully with lunar samples on the morning of February 7th, 2020 (65438+0/.59), and the mission was a complete success. General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, president and Xi Jinping, Chairman of the Central Military Commission sent congratulatory messages, pointing out that Chang 'e-5 mission, as the most complicated space system project with the largest technical span in China, realized the sampling and return of extraterrestrial objects in China for the first time.

This is another major achievement in giving full play to the advantages of the new national system, marking a big step forward for China's space flight. This is a great encouragement and spur to all scientific and technological workers involved in research and experiment.

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The Chang 'e V mission created five China firsts, namely, the sampling and packaging of extraterrestrial objects, the ignition and take-off of extraterrestrial objects and accurate orbit entry, the unmanned rendezvous and docking of lunar orbit and sample transfer, the re-entry of lunar samples into the atmosphere at the second cosmic speed, and the establishment of the storage, analysis and research system of lunar samples in China.

The successful implementation of this mission is a new milestone in the development of China's space industry, which indicates that China has the ability to go back and forth between the earth and the moon, and has achieved the perfect ending of the three-step plan of "circling, falling and returning", laying a solid foundation for China to explore the moon and planets in the future.

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People's Daily Online-Chang 'e V created five China for the first time (authoritative release)