China has launched its first lunar orbiter, on a planned year-long exploration mission to the Moon. The satellite, named Chang'e 1, took off from the Xichang Centre in south-west China's Sichuan province at 1800 local time (1000 GMT).
They say it is part of a program to land one of their very own Chinese guys on the moon by 2020, only 51 years after we did.
But don't get too excited. That little skyrocket they launched is a long ways away from an Apollo-type vehicle that will actually be needed to go claim the moon for themselves.
Coincidentally, the satellite is about the same size and weight of a nuclear warhead. So all they are really doing is trying to demonstrate that they have the ability to launch ICBM's around the world.
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Ability given them during Bubba's reign.
Don't forget that!
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