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By Masood Sattar Khan (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Chinese scientists of Chang’e-4 Mission, engaged in the project of successful historic first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon last year, have won the World Aerospace Award 2020.  According to the China Lunar Exploration Project, Wu Weiren, Yu Dengyun, Sun Zezhou and other outstanding scientists of the Chang’s-4 Mission team won the coveted World Aerospace Award 2020, People’s Daily reported in its Chinese edition.  This is for the first time that the award has been bestowed upon Chinese aerospace scientists by the world body in 70 years.  Chang’e-4 has created many world firsts and it has been regarded as the longest space craft on the moon.  The Chang’e-4 lander and Yutu-2 rover had landed together on the lunar surface on January 3, 2019, marking the first time a spacecraft had ever safely touched down on the far side of the moon.  Around 12 hours after ...