Probe lands on far side of the moon

Name: Probe lands on far side of the moon
Uploaded: 2019-01-03T22:06:00+00:00
Duration: 1 min 30 s
Description: China's burgeoning space program achieved a first on Thursday: a landing on the so-called dark side of the moon. Three nations -- the United States, the former Soviet Union and more recently China -- have sent spacecraft to the near side of the moon, which faces Earth, but this landing is the first-ever on the far side.

China's burgeoning space program achieved a first on Thursday: a landing on the so-called dark side of the moon. Three nations -- the United States, the former Soviet Union and more recently China -- have sent spacecraft to the near side of the moon, which faces Earth, but this landing is the first-ever on the far side.

Posted January 3, 2019 6:17pm EST