CIIC:Today's featured article/December2, 2013

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China's Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP) (中国探月工程), also known as the Chang'e program, is a program of robotic and human missions to the Moon undertaken by the China National Space Administration.

As early as in 1994, Chinese space scientists began to study the possibility of lunar exploration. In 1996, they had completed the technical program of the lunar exploration satellite, solved key technological problems by 1998 and put together the three-stage plan of "Orbiting, Landing and Returning" in 2004. (More...)