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On Saturday 14 December 2013 at 1311 GMT, China’s first Moon lander, Chang’e 3, and its rover touched down on the lunar surface.
China is the third nation to make a soft landing on the Moon, after the United States and the former Soviet Union. This is the first such landing in 37 years; the last one was performed by the Soviet Union in 1976...