Right before the ascent vehicle lifted off, the lander unfurled what the space administration called the first free-standing Chinese flag on the ... according to the China National Space ...

China has planted its flag on the Moon, more than 50 years after the US first planted the Stars and Stripes there. The pictures from China's National Space Administration show the five-starred Red ...

More than a half-century after US astronauts first planted the Stars and Stripes on the moon, China replicated the feat — though unmanned — by unfurling its red flag on the lunar surface.

Beijing — China said its lunar spacecraft unfurled the country's red and gold flag for the first time on the far side of the moon before part of the vehicle blasted off early Tuesday with rock ...

Research work on building China's Chang'e 7 lunar exploration mission includes sending a flag that can flutter in the moon's thin and tenuous atmosphere. "We know that the moon is vacuum with no ...

But not before planting China's flag on the Moon's far-less-studied hemisphere that always faces away from Earth — a symbolic move that underlines just how far the country's space program has ...