Earth-moon system...

Earth-moon system...  As seen by the Chinese Chang'e 5 spacecraft as it zoomed around the far side of the moon.

When I was a young lad in the early '60s, I remember eagerly watching the news as it showed the grainy black-and-white photos returned by early NASA robotic missions to the moon.  We've come a long way since then, but the Chinese have progressed even more.  In the early '60s, while we were shooting for the moon, Mao was firmly in control and his crazy policies were killing millions and had the country retreating rapidly toward the Stone Age.  Now China is successfully developing and launching robotic explorers on their own, and seem on pace to rival NASA's capabilities...