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The US Government and many others attest to it.  
  
November 2021  
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Gen. John Hyten, outgoing vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CBS News about the test during an interview. The test reportedly occurred in July, according to the Financial Times.  
  
China “launched a long-range missile,” Hyten told CBS. “It went around the world, dropped off a hypersonic glide vehicle that glided all the way back to China, that impacted the target in China.”  
  
When asked if the missile hit the target, Hyten said, “Close enough.”  
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"While both China and Russia have conducted numerous successful tests of hypersonic weapons and have likely fielded operational systems, China is leading Russia in both supporting infrastructure and numbers of systems,” the Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief scientist for science and technology told U.S. lawmakers Friday.  
  
“Over the past two decades, China has dramatically advanced its development of conventional and nuclear-armed hypersonic missile technologies and capabilities through intense and focused investment, development, testing and deployment,” said the DIA’s Paul Freisthler, testifying in front of the House Armed Services Committee.  
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BEIJING, June 2, 2024 (Reuters)  
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China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Sunday, overcoming a key hurdle in its landmark mission to retrieve the world's first rock and soil samples from the dark lunar hemisphere.  
The landing elevates China's space power status in a global rush to the moon, where countries including the United States are hoping to exploit lunar minerals to sustain long-term astronaut missions and moon bases within the next decade.  
The Chang'e-6 craft, equipped with an array of tools and its own launcher, touched down in a gigantic impact crater called the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the moon's space-facing side at 6:23 a.m. Beijing time (2223 GMT), the China National Space Administration said.  
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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is being mocked for suggesting the far side of the moon is always "dark" and can't explain why China is interested in exploring that part of the moon.  
  
"What do you think the Chinese are trying to get at, at the back side of the moon?" Rep. David Trone (D-MD) asked Nelson at a congressional hearing last week.  
  
"They are going to have a lander on the far side of the moon, which is the side which is always in dark. Uh, we're not planning to go there," he said.  
  
Trone followed up by asking, "And why not? What's the benefit of doing so?"  
  
"We don't know what's on the back side of the moon, so, uh, that would be something that they would discover," the NASA administrator told lawmakers on Capitol Hill.  
  
"But our decision is that it's more profitable for us to go to the South Pole of the moon because that's where we think the water is," he added.  
  
The Maryland congressman pressed Nelson on why China chose to go to the far side of the moon.  
  
"Why do you think they made that decision? I'm curious," Trone said.  
  
"I have no idea," Nelson said.  
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