First Soft Landing on the Far Side of the Moon

Chang'e 4 lander

Von Kármán crater, far side of the Moon

China's National Space Administration records that at 10:26 Beijing time on 3 January 2019 the Chang'e 4 probe landed autonomously inside Von Kármán crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the Moon — the first soft landing by any spacecraft on the lunar far side.