The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole.

Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning into an uncontrolled orbit, officials say.

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

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

The spacecraft was scheduled to land on Monday to explore a part of the Moon which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements.

Roskosmos, Russia’s state space corporation, said it lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after running into difficulties.

  • NathanielThomas@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s interesting, I was watching a video about Russian history and apparently Ukraine hated Russia for the famine in 1932 and 1933. So when the Nazis rolled into Ukraine they were welcomed as heroes. Historians believe that if the Nazis had worked with the Soviet satellite nations to create buffer zones around the Reich that they potentially could have created a good defence barrier to Soviet aggression. Similar, of course, to how NATO works today.

    Instead, the Nazis, in their infinite stupidity, wanted to exterminate Slavs and create lebensraum, so they united the Ukraine people with Russians for 75+ years. Ukraine even handed away their defensive capabilities (nuclear weapons) to Russia in exchange for a permanent peace pact. And Russia went and blew it all and created enemies again.