Japan has become the fifth country ever to land on the moon as the SLIM probe touched down this afternoon.
The historic moon landing makes history for the nation, as Japan became the fifth country to touchdown after the United States, Russia, China and India.
The successful landing happened despite ’20 minutes of terror’ before touchdown.
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