Yes, six times during US Apollo days. But China's Chang'e 5 will be drilling two meters in a more recent volcanic area (by few billion years) for comparison. Warm up for Martian return sample mission, lunar base by AI machines, and manned lunar missions within decade and a half.
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it means their ICBMs can reach you even you escape to the moon
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I'd put money on them being the first to mine from our celestial rock. Grabbing a few samples as a prelude.
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... ceterum censeo sinarum esse delendam.
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