Cary Marthe

China Moon Landing 2024. This image from nasa’s lunar reconnaissance orbiter shows china’s chang’e 6 lander in the apollo basin on the far side of the moon on june 7, 2024. China's robotic chang'e 6 mission aced its landing on the moon's far side saturday (june 1) and will soon collect samples to send home to earth.

Et, according to telemetry readings by the japan. The achievement made china only the third country — after the united states and the soviet union — to achieve the complex orbital choreography of collecting a sample from the moon.