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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering problems as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.

It was Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years.

Russia has been racing to the Moon's south pole against India, whose Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to land on there next week.

No country has ever landed on the south pole before, although both the US and China have landed softly on the Moon's surface.

No report on whether or not Russia was attempting to use repurposed anti-ship missiles like the ones they use to attack schools and hospitals here on Earth.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (11 children)

No mention on a cause in this article, curious what it was

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Cutting corners due to the money being spirited away by corrupt officials. This is Russia after all.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah, it was obviously sabotage by Western Ukrainian gay Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

NATO's secret moon base lasers shot it down

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Stop…everyone knows it’s moon Nazis. Haven’t you seen Iron Sky?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's part of the cause, not the reason why it actually failed. The people at Roscosmos do work pretty hard even though underpaid and understaffed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hard to make a rocket when you are afraid of windows above ground floor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Definitely shouldn't be depending on what design step you're working on, these comments are weird and unproductive.

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