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.
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.
i am kinda surprised their space program didnt fall apart sooner. foreign interest in said program somewhat helped maybe.
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.
And the Soyuz is barely upgraded 1960s technology. Amazing that NASA relied on it.
They had to. The government killed the Shuttle without an immediate replacement.
Young scientists fled Russia because they would be forced to fight in Putin’s stupid war.