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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have. But unlike a book about Boris Yeltsin's systemic hollowing out of the russian economy and the facilitation of this by the Americans, its hardly relevant.

Although if we are bringing up the gulag archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is not on your side on the issues. Especially not issues like the yeltsin government, the west's influence on Russia and Russian sovereignty.

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

If that's your takeaway, you haven't.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

You really thinks that if I don't think the gulag archipelago is about the yeltsin government then I haven't read it? That's just sad dude. That's just really, really sad.