@grb090423
I was looking on my moon globe here on the table if the precurser lander on far side is mapped 😑 it isn't. (national Geogr.) To my surprise 2 ancient U.S lunar orbiter crashed on the far side. 2009 even Japan's Okina probe crashed there 😉 However chinese use remote transmission for not landing (crashing) blindly.
Yes. I thought there had been other landings but, off the top of my head, I couldn't recall which nations.
This one will be different though in that it will return to Earth with lunar regolith samples 🤞
An interesting mission for sure and with a scientific payload from France, Italy, Sweden and Pakistan, it warrants the hashtag #InternationalCollaboration
@grb090423
There was another surprise in opposite to the U.S "touch downs" from 60ies. The sovjiets had really none Luna probes on the far side. However ! they made the first foto from far side. And Lunar probes they send really many (17) of all kind of orbiter, flybys and softlands. Even probe return as a record in the 60ies belongs to the sovjiets successes.
@grb090423
the chinese ambitions appear to me like a deja vu compared to the americans and sovjiets. Now all competitors swaer they come to stay on the moon. However after Apollo it was clear that mining ressources made not really sense for our earth 🤔 Sooo, have we a "lost cause "? (like in hot wars)
I get the impression some (both national space agencies and private) are planning on using the Moon as experimentation for Mars missions... assuming they can successfully land softly and precisely on the Moon first!
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