China has made public the first pictures of the moon sent back by Chang’e-1, a spacecraft now circling the moon.
Premier Wen Jiabao said, “The Chinese nation is fully able to stand tall among the world’s ranks of advanced nations.”
China first sent a man into space in 2003. In 2005 it sent two men for five days into space. It hopes to put men on the moon by 2024.
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