Musk congratulates China on Tianwen-1's successful landing on Mars

2021-05-17 11:00:00

A major Chinese newspaper featuring a front-page story on China landing a rover on Mars is sold at a newsstand in Beijing on Sunday, May 16, 2021. Photo by Stephen Shaver

On May 15, China's first Mars exploration mission, the Tianwen-1 probe, landed on the southern pre-selected landing zone of the Martian Utopian Plain. In response, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted his congratulations, saying, "it's hard to get to Mars."

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