VOANews.com: "China has announced plans for a satellite intended to orbit the moon by the year 2007, and for a series of lunar missions over the next two decades.
The deputy director of the China National Space Administration, Sun Laiyan, told reporters in Beijing Wednesday that the satellite will be just the first phase of a three-stage lunar program. He said an unmanned spacecraft would return with samples of lunar soil by the year 2020, in the final stage."
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