First historical landing on surface unseen by those on Earth: China’s Chang’e-4 probe softlands on Moon’s far side
2019-01-06
CNBC Wed 2 January, 2019
technical challenge to land on Moon’s far side: no direct way to communicate with the spacecraft
China makes history as the first to land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon.
The Chang’e 4 mission launched in early December. It took the spacecraft three days to travel to the moon, where it spent the last few weeks