18 June 2018
After Chang'e-3 accomplished its mission, China's space sector debated Chang'e 4's destination. Some were in favor of landing on the near side of the Moon again, because it's safer. "I disagreed with that. Why should Chang'e 4 repeat what Chang'e 3 had done? We should not be afraid of failure in scientific exploration. We need innovation," Ye Peijian, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and one of China's leading space experts said.
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