The Trump administration wants to get back to the moon—but Beijing’s single-minded focus could outpace a NASA with competing priorities.
Shortly after New Year’s Day, a boxy gold-toned spacecraft made a soft landing on a corner of the solar system never before visited from Earth: the moon’s far side, sometimes known as the “dark side.”
The craft began sending images of previously unseen reddish craters, bouncing them off a satellite orbiting above. In the following days ... Read even more