- China,
- democratically elected Communist Party,
- Esteemed Leader for Life,
- to lovely Nigella (see below) and
- all peace-loving volunteer spaci-mens of Chang'e-4 lunar probe "
for soundly beating Aging American Apollo Astro-codgers to far side of Moon - only 50 years later.
A healthy space program is a positive sign of our superpower status, along with China having the second largest economy, second largest defense budget, largest consumer and producer population and highest cheap energy consumption in the world.
We land on it, we own it! See Youtube proof from English BBC mature babe, with totarry sexy voice, below.
Although Nigella sounds better, and see Nigella do better than rick her fingers here?!
US Apollo 8 astronauts were the first humans to see the far side of the Moon with the naked eye when they orbited the Moon in 1968.
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The Apollo Program owed much of its success to ex-SS Nazi Wernher von Braun, who contributed heavily to the booster rockets for the US Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs. Coincidentally 1 minute, 32 seconds into the Youtube above, Tom Lehrer says Wernher von Braun is "...learning Chinese." :-)
Until today all of the manned and unmanned soft landings so far have taken place on the near side of the Moon.
See previous two Submarine Matters' articles on China's superpower space achievements:
- Chinese Manned Spacecraft Docking Glory, February 17, 2012, and
- China's Space Achievements - Passing US's Manned Program, November 25, 2013.
Pete