New space race is on but the US is falling way behind. China just got a major strategic advantage.

China Makes 1st-Ever Landing on Moon's Mysterious Far Side

China's robotic Chang'e 4 mission touched down on the floor of the 115-mile-wide Von Kármán Crater Wednesday night (Jan. 2), pulling off the first-ever soft landing on the mysterious lunar far side.

Chang'e 4 will perform a variety of science work over the coming months, potentially helping scientists better understand the structure, formation and evolution of Earth's natural satellite. But the symbolic pull of the mission will resonate more with the masses: The list of unexplored locales in our solar system just got a little shorter.

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