Just days after New Year’s celebrations wound down around the world, China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) achieved a historic lunar milestone on Jan. 3 by soft-landing a probe on the dark side of the moon—that is, the side of the moon that we denizens of the earth can’t see.
Few Westerners, nonetheless, might have paid much attention to the name of this mission’s spacecraft, Chang’e-4 and that of the landed rover, Yutu-2. Both, however, are legendary and household names in China.
