China Moon Mission 2024. China’s chang’e 6 mission has successfully returned samples from the moon’s far side, opening a new phase of the nation’s lunar space race with the u.s. China launched an uncrewed lunar mission friday that aims to bring back samples from the far side of the moon for the first time, in a potentially major step.

The country joins russia — then the soviet union —. In fact, the china manned space agency.