China rover sets record for longest stay on Moon

           

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1. China's first lunar rover, Yutu, has been operating on the moon for almost two years, setting a record for the longest stay by a rover. It has stayed longer than Soviet Union's 1970 moon rover Lunokhod 1, which spent 11 months on the moon.
2. Yutu was deployed and landed on the moon via China's Chang'e-3 lunar probe in 2013 making China the third country after the Soviet Union and the US to carry out such a mission. 
3. Yutu experienced a mechanical control abnormality in 2014, but it was revived within a month and, though it is unable to move, it continues to collect data, send and receive signals, and record images and video.
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4. The launch of Dongfanghong-1, China's first satellite, in 1970 made China the fifth country to launch a domestic satellite using a domestic rocket, following the Soviet Union, the United States, France and Japan.
5. China launched its manned space program in the 1990s and successfully sent Yang Liwei, the country's first astronaut, into orbit on the Shenzhou-5 spacecraft in 2003.
6. China is planning to be the first country to land a lunar probe on the far side of the Moon, or "dark side of the Moon," which is never visible to Earth.