China's Chang'e-6 successfully landed on the moon's far side to collect samples, marking China's fourth lunar landing and the second on the moon's far side, according to state media reports.
This past weekend saw two notable space-related events: China's Chang'e-6 lander made a successful landing on the moon's far side, and Boeing's crewed Starliner spacecraft launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station was postponed once more.
After being launched on May 3 from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the Chinese island of Hainan, the lander spent days orbiting the moon before making a final landing at the South Pole-Aitken Basin on Sunday morning at 06:23 Beijing time.
It is anticipated that the lander will release a drill-equipped mechanical arm and proceed to bore into the lunar surface to retrieve a 4.4-pound core sample. After that, the sample will be transferred to a different moon-orbiting module and brought back to Earth by th...
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