The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole.

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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.

    • ElHexo [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      203·
      1 year ago

      The Soviets were the last to land on the moon (other than China).

      NASA has been too busy pissing money into the Shuttle and SLS industry subsidy programs. I think they have a couple micro lander projects on the go though, slated for next year or the year after.

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
      196·
      1 year ago

      TIL when a non-USA country lands in space, that place becomes haunted, but USA brings good capitalism everywhere it goes…

          • Cataphract@lemmy.ko4abp.com
            1·
            1 year ago

            This is off-topic, but I keep seeing Anglo being used (maybe I just keep running into your comments). Is it suppose to be insulting like in the context of your comment? Is it descriptive? How do you know if someone is an Anglo online? Do you feel like it has any negative connotations being used? Feel free to answer any of the questions or none at all lol, curiosity got the better of me.

            • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
              26·
              1 year ago

              Atleast 70-80% of internet users on internet in general are guaranteed to be from Anglosphere countries. Yes, it is insulting for the white hivemind that looks down upon rest of the world with ~7 billion people.

              • Cataphract@lemmy.ko4abp.com
                2·
                1 year ago

                Huh, I was forced in my early years to be raised around very conservative and racist individuals so your use of the word and validation for it’s usage feels very much like my childhood experience. To each their own though, the commonality is just interesting to me when I saw your first comment.