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China is the only country to have landed on the moon's dark side.
China landed its Chang'e-4 spacecraft on the moon in 2019, but the crew didn't just land anywhere. The spaceship landed on the far side of the space-based entity, maybe wondering what all the hoopla was about. It was "the first spacecraft in history to try or complete a landing on this unknown region, which is never visible from Earth," according to history. The Chinese astronauts investigated the huge lunar craters on the frigid surface while there.