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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 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

WhyYesZoidberg

[-] [email protected] 165 points 1 year ago

Funny because Russia, but sad because science

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

You can get a lot of tasty data from a crash if you're lucky.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Narrator: They were not.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

None of it would’ve been shared anyway.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Science didn't really lose anything on this.

[-] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago

"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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He's just pinin' for the feeyords

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

So Boeing did the flight software?

[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

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] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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] 0 points 1 year ago

Lmfao, roflmao

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

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] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Scheduled for Wednesday to land on the moon

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Lol Russia rly became a laughing stock lately...

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year 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] 18 points 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.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Did it fall out of a window?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I heard it was a smoking incident.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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] 7 points 1 year ago

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

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

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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

sphere earth

Are you trying to say that the is earth is flat

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Only if you take my comment at face value.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Glory to Ukraine.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

This sparks joy.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That was one very small step for mankind.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

This is my happy thought.

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