Japan becomes the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the moon | Mari Yamaguchi

TOKYO—Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when one of its spacecraft without astronauts successfully made a soft landing on the lunar surface early Saturday. However, space officials said they needed more time to analyze whether the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, achieved its…

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