“The Silk Road to space:' China’s quest for space power starts with moon dust
HONG KONG—Nestled in 3.82 pounds of moon soil is what China hopes could be the answer to fueling its future.
Chinese nuclear scientists are studying samples carried back by China’s Chang’e 5 late last year in the first mission to return with lunar material since the Soviet Union’s in 1976. One of those under the microscope at the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology is a 50-milligram rock—approximately the size of a lentil—believed to contain an isotope called helium-3.
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