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The mentality of those countries is that you sacrifice a lot for the state. The West does not think like that. Whats wrong with China having its day in the sun, so to speak? The U.S. and Russia had theirs.

.....after the US had landed on the surface with manned space craft fifty years ago. Been there, done that.

Landing a probe on the Moon is no big deal these days, even if it is on the far side. Intercepting comets and Kuiper Belt objects is the bleeding edge of space technology.

Well, let's see, in the last week, yes, China landed an unmanned rover on the far side of the Moon, a feat that no one had ever done before.

Two days before that, a US spacecraft flew by a Kuiper Belt object four BILLION miles away, and took pictures and recorded data, a bit of which has been received, with the rest to come down over a few months, due to the extreme distances involved.

Of the two events, the US one is the far more complex one, and the real first. So, no one's getting 'embarrassed' by what China has done. Let's see when China sends any successful probes beyond the Moon, a feat which the US success record goes back FIFTY SIX years and still going...

Because they ceased to be an enlightened democracy in pursuit of a path of unenlightened Idiocracy, better start learning mandarin

They have done well but I notice no Trolls have accused China of an hoax.

LOL we did that back in the 60's dude

every ship we sent there manned or unmanned explored the far side