Chinese probe crashes into moon
Found on BBC News on Saturday, 28 February 2009
A Chinese lunar probe has crashed into the moon in what Beijing has called a controlled collision.
China's ever-more ambitious space programme includes plans for a space station and landing a man on the moon.
Chang'e 1 was under the remote control of two stations in Qingda, eastern China, and Kashgar in the north-west of the country, the Xinhua news agency said.
Even if all that went as planned, I can't help but not to trust anything China officials say. They remind me of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf.