HONG KONG — An important lunar mission has proven China's growing scientific capability, although the feat has set off a flood of misinformation targeting the United States that researchers said reflects their bitter competition in space.
China is celebrating the return of the Chang'e-6 probe to Earth on Tuesday, bearing rock-and-soil samples from the little-known far side of the Moon, following a 53-day mission that reignited old conspiracy theories about NASA's Apollo Moon landings.
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