A space module carrying China's first lunar rover landed on the moon Saturday, state television showed, a major step for the emerging superpower's ambitious space programme. (PHOTO, VIDEO)
The first-ever Chinese spacecraft landed on the moon on Saturday, state television reported.
The successful landing of the Chang'e-3 spacecraft, at
1311 GMT, makes China only the third nation to land a spacecraft on the
moon, after the United States and the former Soviet Union.