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To: TobagoJack who wrote (103983)	12/12/2013 8:21:28 AM
From: Amelia Carhartt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219928

Well, that's just fine if you want to be run out of your home. I do not.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (103983)	12/14/2013 12:37:02 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219928

China's first moon rover makes lunar landing Pete SweeneyReuters FacebookTwitterLinkedInGooglePlusEmail 2 hours ago Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering The Chang'e 3 lunar lander and moon rover is part of the second phase of China's three-step robotic lunar exploration program. SHANGHAI – China landed an unmanned spacecraft on the moon on Saturday, state media reported, in the first such "soft-landing" since 1976, joining the United States and the former Soviet Union in managing to accomplish such a feat. At 9:14 p.m. local time, the official Xinhua news service reported that the Chang'e 3 spacecraft had touched down in the Sinus Iridum, or the Bay of Rainbows, at 9:12 p.m. after hovering over the surface for several minutes seeking an appropriate place to land. The Chang'e 3 lunar lander, named after a lunar goddess in traditional Chinese mythology, is carrying the solar-powered Yutu, or Jade Rabbit buggy, which will dig and conduct geological surveys. [ See photos from China's Chang'e 3 moon landing and rover mission] China has been increasingly ambitious in developing its space programs, for military, commercial and scientific purposes. In its most recent manned space mission in June, three astronauts spent 15 days in orbit and docked with an experimental space laboratory, part of Beijing's quest to build a working space station by 2020. AFP - Getty Images An image of the moon's surface is displayed on the screen at the Beijing Space Center after it was transmitted to earth by Chang'e-3, carrying China's first lunar rover, prior to landing on the moon on Saturday. A soft landing does not damage the craft and the equipment it carries. In 2007, China put another lunar probe in orbit around the moon, which then executed a controlled crash on to its surface. China Central Television (CCTV) broadcast images of the probe's location on Saturday and a computer generated image of the probe on the surface of the moon on its website. The probe and the rover are expected to photograph each other on Sunday. The Bay of Rainbows was selected because it has yet to be studied, has ample sunlight and is convenient for remote communications with Earth, Xinhua said. [ The Moon: 10 Surprising Facts] The rover will be remotely controlled by Chinese control centers with support from a network of tracking and transmission stations around the world operated by the European Space Agency (ESA). [ See Photos from Chang'e 3's Launch to the Moon] The surface of the moon has not been visited for decades. Apollo 17 moonwalkers packed up their belongings and rocketed off that barren landscape in 1972. Last to explore the moon was the former Soviet Union's robotic Luna 24 sample return mission in 1976.