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.

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[–] 57 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    i am kinda surprised their space program didnt fall apart sooner. foreign interest in said program somewhat helped maybe.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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