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

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

Russia has been racing to the Moon's south pole against India, whose Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to land on there next week.

No country has ever landed on the south pole before, although both the US and China have landed softly on the Moon's surface.

No report on whether or not Russia was attempting to use repurposed anti-ship missiles like the ones they use to attack schools and hospitals here on Earth.

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[–] TheMadnessKing 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone fond of science, its kinda heart breaking as many people spends decades of work to make this stuff and their dreams get crushed when these fail. Hope they fix and launch another one.

[–] AlexTheTurtle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Failures are a part of science! I hope russian scientist dont lose their funding and can continue to contribute to space exploration.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For obvious reasons, I am surprised they have any funding at all right now.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's amazing how the funding for space exploration just magically appears when nationalist pissing contests are a go-go. But healthcare? How could we possibly afford it?

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both should be extensively funded, I think.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Whether they should is a thing unworthy of consideration - if they don't it means we have no use for states at all. The interesting thing is whether they could if they wanted to. And the answer to that is yes - they could. The fact of the matter is that they do not want to.