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.

  • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

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

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        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.