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.

  • @spamfajitas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9•1 year ago

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

    • originalucifer
      2•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.