China hands its far-side Moon samples to Russia — the first foreign team to study them
China has given Russian scientists lunar rocks collected by its Chang'e-6 mission from the far side of the Moon — the first time any foreign team will study the unique samples — as part of deepening China-Russia space cooperation. We are awaiting the US and Western perspective, where a law (the 'Wolf Amendment') bars NASA from such cooperation with Beijing and a China-Russia space axis draws strategic concern.
China is sharing rare Chang'e-6 far-side lunar material with Russian researchers — the first foreign scientists granted access — framing it as deepening bilateral space-science cooperation and a willingness to open up its lunar programme, with researchers set to hunt for volatile compounds preserved in the soil.
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