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This story of China’s space program begins in two places: on the far side of the Moon, where in January 2019 China conducted its most ambitious lunar mission to date; and at Jiuquan, in the desert of northwest China, where China began all the necessary tests for the later construction of its first large space station.
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Harvey, B. (2019). The far side of the Moon. In: China in Space. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19588-5_1
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