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.

  • ttmrichter@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    1 year 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.