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    China just landed on the far side of the moon. Could it become the first nation to have its own moon base?

    by Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times Jan 03, 2019 5 minutes

    BEIJING, China - China's Chang'e-4 lunar lander touched down on the far side of the moon Thursday morning Beijing time, the latest milestone marking the nation's determination to become a global leader in space exploration.

    Chinese scientists have already declared China's ambitions to establish a manned moon base and to send nuclear-powered rockets into space in future decades to colonize and exploit space.

    No nation has ever landed a lunar lander on the far side of the moon, a mission complicated by the fact that the moon blocks direct communications with Earth. China used a relay satellite, Queqiao, to send transmissions to scientists.

    Chang'e-4, carrying a 300-pound lunar rover with probes and spectrometers, touched down in the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin,

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