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Nice work, go team human! From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang'e_6

"If the mission is successful, China will become the first nation to land, collect, and deliver samples back to Earth from the far side of the Moon."

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Your second sentence (even of it's a citation) makes this about competition, kinda negating the message of your first sentence.

competition within teams can be a good thing

I don't think anyone is really competing for this achievement right now. If I'm running a race with no other competitors, can I claim to have finished first? Or even to be racing?

In the past year there were 6 probes (include Chang'e-6) trying to make a soft landing on the moon and only half of them succeed or partially succeed. I'm not sure how it counts as "no other competitors".

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