BEIJING: The Chang’e 5 robotic probe has become China’s first spacecraft to bring the country’s national flag to an extraterrestrial body.
A small national flag was mounted on the multi-module probe’s lander and was erected before Chang’e 5’s ascender lifted itself into a lunar orbit.
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