Russia tried to land a moon rover and instead planted said rover into its own crater. That’s downright embarrassing for a country who’s last significant accomplishment was marching into Berlin in 1945. India is up next.
Russia’s first mission to the moon in nearly 50 years ended in a disaster as its unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft crashed while attempting to land on the unexplored south pole, Russian authorities said Sunday.
Russia was racing with India to become the first nation to land a rover on the area of the moon that scientists believe could hold water and other elements that could support a human settlement in the future.
The Luna-25 probe was launched on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket on Aug. 11 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East and was supposed to touch down on Aug. 21.
Russia’s first mission to the moon in nearly 50 years ended in a disaster as its unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft crashed while attempting to land on the unexplored south pole, Russian authorities said Sunday.
Russia was racing with India to become the first nation to land a rover on the area of the moon that scientists believe could hold water and other elements that could support a human settlement in the future.
The Luna-25 probe was launched on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket on Aug. 11 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East and was supposed to touch down on Aug. 21.
