France, Nov. 24 -- China launched its latest and todate, one of its most ambitious space missions called Chang'e 5 that will attempt to retrieve lunar rock samples, which, if it succeedswill be a first in 44 years. If it succeeds, China will become only the third country after the United States and the Soviet Union to have brought back samples from the Moon to the Earth.

"Chang'e 5 will collect samples from a different region of the Moon which makes it very valuable," Frederic Moynier of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris told RFI.

Moynier, who is an expert on lunar and Martian rocks samples said that while the scientific community learned a lot about the Moon from the samples brought back by the Apollo and the Luna missions, th...