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CHANG'E-2 LAUNCH: Oct. 1, 2010 LANDING SITE: None MISSION: The uncrewed Chang'e 2 orbited the moon and tested a 100-kilometre-high lunar orbit to prepare for a soft landing of Chang'e-3. It later extended its mission with a fly-by of a near-earth asteroid "4179 Toutatis". DURATION: The mission lasted eight months, ending on June 9, 2011.
China on Friday launched a mission to collect samples from the moon's "hidden" side, a first in space exploration history. See what other explorations China has made for its lunar mission and what else it has planned.
The Soviet Luna programme explored the Moon throughout the 60s and 70s, returning the first images of the surface and the lunar far side.
NASA's Lucy mission took stunning closeup images of the moon after using Earth to gain a gravity-assisted boost for its journey to visit Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
NASA's Artemis program promises to transform lunar science with humans' return to the moon and dozens of robotic science missions.