We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this videoWe are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this videoChina has become the first country to land a spacecraft on the far side of the Moon, laying down the gauntlet in a revived space race. The unmanned Chang’e-4 probe, built by the China National Space Administration (CNSA), touched down this morning in the deepest, oldest crater of the lunar surface, within the South Pole-Aitken basin. The successful “soft landing” took place at 10.26am Beijing time, or 2.26am GMT. The landing quickly became the leading topic on Chinese social media. “It’s a very good start for our future lunar work,” said Wu Weiren, chief…

Source: The Times January 03, 2019 07:29 UTC