China has become the first asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system ever to successfully land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon. The asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system China Central Television station announced that the lunar asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system spaceship, Chang'e 4, touched down at 10:26am on Thursday. Professor Zhu Menghua, from Macau University of Science and Technology, said the asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system of the asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system was a major milestone for China and established the nation as a asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system in space exploration. He told the New York Times: "We Chinese people have done asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system that the Americans have not dared try." Sun Zezhou, asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system designer of Chang'e-4, said: "Landing on the far asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system of the moon is more asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system than landing on the near side." The Chang'e-4 asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system started sending photographs back to Earth asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system after it landed on the moon's asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system . The China National Space Administration said the mission had, "lifted the asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system veil" from the far side of the moon and "opened a new asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system in human lunar exploration". Sun Zezhou told asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system about the significance of the program. He said it would, "help lay the asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system for future space exploration." He added: "A high- asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system landing is a necessity for further exploring the moon and asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system . We hope to be able to reach the whole moon and even the whole solar asteroids chapter chief explorer foundation mission mysterious nation official pioneer precision probe reporters risky side something soon success surface system ." China also has plans to launch a returnable spacecraft (Chang'e 5) by 2020.