China Launches 1st Mission to Land on the Far Side of the Moon

A Long March 3B has launched the Chang’e 4 probe towards the moon, where if all goes well it will land a stationary base and a rover on the far side of the moon in early January (likely in the Von Kármán Crater). It will communicate with Earth via a comsat placed at the L2 point beyond the moon back in May.

Good luck to ’em. But where are the *fleets* of far side probes that NASA should have launched by now?