China's Space Program Thread II

[Dante80]

W00t, let's go! Many congrats to CNSA for another successful landing, wishing a long and impressive mission!

 

[by78]

Chang'e-6 has begun drilling for samples, a process that will take around 20 hours.

 

[by78]

Chang'e-6 landing footage taken by onboard camera.

 

[broadsword]

I give that a 10/10 landing. Find a nice clean spot and land on your feet.

 

[Franklin]

Secret CNSA NASA communication:

We backed you on Apollo for decades now back us on Chang'e.

 

[Michael90]

Unmanned lunar landing would’ve been junk tier technology if only some major space powers wouldn’t keep failing at it.

Looking at Russia and Japan.

 

[TOKYO DRIFT ABC]

Looking at Russia and Japan.

USA! USA! USA!

 

[by78]

The latest image update (May 31st) on the construction progress of launchpad no. 2 at Hainan Commercial Spaceport. The launchpad is expected to be finished by the end of this month.

 

[victoon]

I didn't realize these guys made it into the control room.

 

[Michael90]

USA! USA! USA!

To be fair it was a US private company who landed on the moon which is actually impressive for a private company to attempt a moon landing (which they did but spacecraft didnt land upright but tilted), So they can be forgiven. By contrast Russia and Japan were national projects backed by their national government agences but they still failed completely for the former and partially for the latter. India failed the first time but got it second time.