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 ...

China's Chang'e-6 has unfurled the first flag on the dark side of the moon, before beginning its return journey to Earth. Before departing, the rover also collected the very first samples of ...

So the design included not just an upright pole but a perpendicular extension like a shower curtain rod, so the flag could hang fully unfurled, all its stars and stripes showing. Now China ...

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 ...