Within The Black

China has landed on the moon's mysterious far side — again.

The robotic Chang'e 6 mission touched down inside Apollo Crater, within the giant South Pole-Aitken basin, at 6:23 a.m. Beijing Time on Sunday (June 2) , according to Chinese space officials. It was 6:23 p.m. EDT (2223 GMT) on June 1 at the time of the landing. The probe "successfully landed in the pre-selected area," China's space agency said.

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) now has two far-side landings under its belt — this one and Chang'e 4, which dropped a lander-rover combo onto the gray dirt in January 2019. No other country has done it once.

And Chang'e 6 will make further history for China, if all goes according to plan: The mission aims to scoop up samples and send them back to Earth, giving researchers their first-ever up-close looks at material from this part of the moon. https://www.space.com/china-change-6-la ... rn-mission

What always bothered me is the fact that we went to the moon and never went back since then. We had the technology and we have even better tech now so what gives? Why are we still sending robots?

I did hear there are tons of dead bodies on the moon from failed missions. Not sure how true this is. Could explain us "going back" and it not being reported.