On December 1 2020, China successfully completed the successful moon landing of its Chang’e 5 unmanned spacecraft – the third time the country has successfully completed such a feat since 2013.
The official Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported that the Chang’e-5 spacecraft made a successful landing within the moon’s Mons Rümker region – a volcanic plain on the near side of the moon said to be approximately 1.2 billion years old – and has already begun to collect rock and dirt…