China's lunar probe, Changle 1, has successfully been inserted into lunar orbit. The probe will spend the next year carrying out photographic studies of the lunar surface and chemical and geological stidies of the Moon's interior. China is now the fourth nation, after the United States, the old Soviet Union, and Japan, to place a probe in lunar orbit.
Changle 1 is also a first step. China plans a lunar rover in 2012, and a lunar soil sample return five years later. Both of those would be unmanned, but China is also looking at putting people on the Moon in the not-too-distant future.
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