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Topic: China's Chang'e 5: Sharing moon rock samples
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-11-2017 08:12 AM
   
China's Chang'e 5 lunar sample return mission is (unofficially) on hold after a Long March 5 rocket failure in July. The delay however, could prove beneficial by allowing more time for international collaboration to emerge on lunar science and exploration, Leonard David reports for Scientific American. New samples could be a scientific bonanza for the global lunar research community, but only if China proves willing to share.Talks on potential collaborations and the sharing of lunar samples are already underway between Europe and China as well as early discussions involving China and Russia. ...according to Jim Green, head of the agency's Planetary Science Division. NASA "is unaware of [China's] plans to release samples to a broader planetary science community,' Green says. Buzz Aldrin has proposed arranging a similar arrangement to that made between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 1970s, when both nations shared samples from their respective lunar missions. “Sharing lunar samples between nations is good for science,” he says. "It's good for country-to-country cooperation. And furthermore, it helps focus the exploration agenda of the U.S. and China as we return to the moon as a proving ground for sending crews to distant Mars. I believe it's time to seek avenues of space cooperation with China — and exchanging specimens brought back from the moon is one of them." | |
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