Mai i te tau 1976, kua tau mai ngā tauira toka tuatahi o te marama ki te Ao. I te 16 o Tīhema, i whakahokia mai e te waka mokowhiti Chang'e-5 o Haina te tata ki te 2 kirokaramu o ngā rauemi i muri i te haerenga poto ki te mata o te marama.
I tau a E-5 ki te marama i te 1 o Hakihea, ā, i rere anō i te 3 o Hakihea. He poto rawa te wā o te waka mokowhiti nā te mea he hiko o te rā, ā, kāore e taea te tu atu i te pō kino o te marama, e -173°C te pāmahana. E 14 ngā rā o te ao e mau ana i te maramataka o te marama.
"Hei kaipūtaiao mō te marama, he mea whakatenatena tēnei, ā, e harikoa ana ahau kua hoki mai tātou ki te mata o te marama mō te wā tuatahi i roto i te tata ki te 50 tau," te kī a Jessica Barnes o Te Whare Wānanga o Arizona. Ko te misioni whakamutunga ki te whakahoki mai i ngā tauira mai i te marama ko te waka rererangi Soviet Luna 24 i te tau 1976.
I muri i te kohikohinga o ngā tauira e rua, tangohia tētahi tauira mai i te whenua, kātahi ka tangohia tētahi tauira mai i te hohonutanga o te rua mita i raro i te whenua, kātahi ka utaina ki roto i te waka e piki ana, kātahi ka hiki atu ki te hoki atu ki te ara iahiko o te waka misioni. Koinei te wā tuatahi kua taunga aunoa ngā waka mokowhiti karetao e rua ki waho o te ara iahiko o te Ao.
I whakawhitia te kāpū kei roto te tauira ki te waka mokowhiti hoki, i wehe atu i te ara iahiko o te marama, ā, i hoki ki te kāinga. I te whakatata atu o Chang'e-5 ki te whenua, ka tukuna e ia te kāpū, ka peke atu i te āhuarangi i tētahi wā, pērā i te toka e peke ana i runga i te mata o te roto, ka puhoi haere i mua i te urunga ki te āhuarangi, ka whakarewa i te parakaiti.
Hei whakamutunga, ka tau te kāpū ki Mongolia o Roto. Ka rongoatia ētahi o te puehu marama ki Te Whare Wānanga o Hunan i Changsha, Haina, ā, ka tohatohahia te toenga ki ngā kairangahau hei tātaritanga.
Ko tētahi o ngā tātaritanga tino nui ka mahia e ngā kairangahau ko te ine i te pakeketanga o ngā toka i roto i ngā tauira me te pānga o te taiao ātea ki a rātou i roto i te wā. "Ki tā mātou whakaaro ko te rohe i tau ai a Chang'e 5 tētahi o ngā rerenga rangitoto taitamariki rawa atu i runga i te mata o te marama," te kī a Barnes. "Mēnā ka taea e tātou te whakawhāiti pai ake i te pakeketanga o te rohe, ka taea e tātou te whakatakoto here kaha ake mō te pakeketanga o te pūnaha rā katoa."