"China's first-ever mission to land a rover on the moon has begun its
journey to the lunar frontier.

Riding atop a modified Long March 3B rocket, China's Chang'e 3 moon
lander and its rover Yutu toward the moon at 1:30 a.m. Monday (Dec. 2)
local time from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the country's
Sichuan province. It was 12:30 p.m. EST (1730 GMT) on Dec. 1 at launch
time.

If the probe continues on track, Chang'e 3 will land on the lunar
surface by mid-December, becoming the first spacecraft to touch down
on the moon in more than 37 years. The moon landing mission was the
former Soviet Union's robotic Luna 24 sample return mission in 1976."

See:

http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-1st-moo...190716529.html