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China makes historic
landing on far side of the
moon
The landing elevates China’s space power status in a global rush to the moon.
SINGAPORE: China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Sunday, a landmark mission which aims to retrieve rocks and soil from the lunar surface, China’s space agency said.
The landing elevates China’s space power status in a global rush to the moon, where countries, including the US, are hoping to exploit lunar minerals to sustain long-term astronaut missions and moon bases.
The Chang’e-6 craft successfully landed in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the back of the moon at 6.23am, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said in a statement on its website.
“The Chang’e-6 mission is the first human sampling and return mission from the far side of the moon. It involves many engineering innovations, high risks and great difficulty,” CNSA said.
“The payloads carried by the Chang’e-6 lander will work as planned and carry out scientific exploration missions,” CNSA said.
The successful mission is China’s second on the far side of the moon, a region no country has landed on before. The back of the moon perpetually faces away from the Earth, making communications challenging.
The Chang’e-6 probe landed nearly a month after it was launched by a Chinese Long March-5 rocket from Wenchang Space Launch Centre on the southern island of Hainan.
By 2035, if no opposing actions are taken by other industrial nations, easily 80-90% of all industry worldwide, from El Cheapo stuff to Cutting Edge tech will be Made in China or if elsewhere by China-controled companies.
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Xi Jinping will rule All Powerful as Emperor of the Known Universe.
Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 to rebuild the Russian Empire
Instead Putin unintentially returns Russia to its 14th Century status as a Vassal State taking instructions from Khanbaliq, the Mongol Capital now known as Beijing.
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