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Russia's first moon mission in 47 years failed when its Luna-25 space craft spun out of control and crashed into the moon after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit, underscoring the post-Soviet decline of a once mighty space programme.

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[–] [email protected] 221 points 2 years ago (1 children)

did they mistake the moon for an ukrainian hospital or something?

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

WhyYesZoidberg

[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon," Roskosmos said in a statement.

It has ceased to exist, it is bereft of life! This is an ex-apparatus!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He's just pinin' for the feeyords

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

So Boeing did the flight software?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So the Special Lunar Operation didn't go as planned? I thought they said it would only take three days...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It said a special inter-departmental commission had been formed to investigate the reasons behind the loss of the Luna-25 craft, whose mission had raised hopes in Moscow that Russia was returning to the big power moon race.

lol, lmao

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Lmfao, roflmao

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Russia isn't the Soviet Union, they clearly are unable to control the little technology they have left.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

i am kinda surprised their space program didnt fall apart sooner. foreign interest in said program somewhat helped maybe.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For a while the Soyuz spacecraft was the only way to get up to the ISS, so I'm sure NASA and ESA were helping them any way they could to keep those working.

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

And the Soyuz is barely upgraded 1960s technology. Amazing that NASA relied on it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

They had to. The government killed the Shuttle without an immediate replacement.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Young scientists fled Russia because they would be forced to fight in Putin's stupid war.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any news on how the Indian one did?

I expected Russia’s to blow up on launch, so bully for them for getting it to the moon, but India was scheduled to launch one yesterday too, and I’m far more intrigued about how they faired.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Scheduled for Wednesday to land on the moon

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

So the "let's give our people nothing and expect them to land on the moon" attitude doesn't work after all, how surprising!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lol Russia rly became a laughing stock lately...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Good thing russia is such a wealthy country, im sure they couldnt have spent the money any better. This is all just propaganda for the home front, so russia can depict themselves larger as they are and distract their own people from the ongoing decline

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

A failed space program probably wouldn't be the smartest way to do that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Post-Soviet decline?

Their last attempt at a lander was in 1976 which is (checks notes) smack dab in the middle of the Soviet era ... and it crashed too.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Did it fall out of a window?

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

Someone is about to be defenestrated over this once they figure out who to pin it on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I heard it was a smoking incident.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The result of about half of recent lander missions from Earth is failure.

The USA hasn't tried one recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah but the USA also completed a highly complex multi-stage landing on Mars without a crash so I think they could do the moon if they wanted to

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Been there, done that, got the conspiracy theorists.

Or we're just luring in the sphere earth sheeple from other countries' space programs so they waste resources smashing their rockets and landers into the firmament.

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

sphere earth

Are you trying to say that the is earth is flat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Only if you take my comment at face value.

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

The impact site should be given a suitable name to remember this event. Fascist's Folly? Dictator's Demise?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

Glory to Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

'putin's promise'. his name deserves to be aligned with a crater of failure comprised of the literal remains of the soviet union's space program.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

This sparks joy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

That was one very small step for mankind.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

This is my happy thought.