And somehow BBC Radio 4 also missed to report about how NASA again failed with its Starliner program!
China’s Chang’e-6 landed in an impact crater known as Apollo Basin after orbiting the moon for roughly 20 days. The next stage of its journey involves using a drill and a mechanical arm to collect rocks from the basin - which formed over four billion years ago. An ascender atop the lander will then take the samples in a metal vacuum container back to another module that is orbiting the moon. The container will be transferred to a re-entry capsule that is due to return to Earth in the deserts of China’s Inner Mongolia region about June 25. China also has a three-member crew on its own orbiting space station and aims to put astronauts on the moon by 2030. Three Chinese lunar probe missions are planned over the next four years. Free from exposure to Earth and other interference, the moon’s somewhat mysterious far side is ideal for radio astronomy and other scientific work. Because the far side never faces Earth, a relay satellite is needed to maintain communications. The rocket carrying the Chang’e-6 lunar probe — named after the Chinese mythical moon goddess — lifted off from the Wenchang launch center on the island of Hainan. The landing is China's second on the far side of the moon - a region no other country has reached.