Moscow was hoping to make history in a race to be the first country to make a soft landing on the moon’s icy south pole.
| Russia’s space agency said on Sunday that its Luna-25 spacecraft – its first lunar mission in almost half a century – crashed into the moon.
A rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 takes off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East on August 11.The crash came after the spacecraft entered an uncontrolled orbit that deviated from the one the agency had calculated, it said.to make history in a race to be the first country to make a soft landing on the moon’s icy south pole.
It had already sent back images of the moon’s Zeeman crater, and was expected to make a landing on Monday – two days before an Indian mission is set to touch down. Their race to land on the south pole of the moon comes amid a rush by countries including the United States and China to establish a lunar presence.
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