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Russia's moon mission crash dents pride, reflects deeper problems with its space industry

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Russian state television had hailed the spacecraft as the country’s triumphant entry into a new moon race, but since the crash, the broadcasters have tried to play down the loss of the robotic probe.

after nearly half a century has exposed the massive challenges faced by Moscow's once-proud space program.over the weekend, reflects the endemic problems that have dogged the Russian space industry since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Those include the loss of key technologies in the post-Soviet industrial meltdown, the bruising impact of recent Western sanctions, a huge brain drain and widespread corruption.

Mikhail Marov, a 90-year-old scientist who played a prominent role in planning the earlier lunar missions and worked on the Luna-25 project, was hospitalized after its failure. Natan Eismont, a leading researcher with the Moscow-based Institute for Space Research, told the state RIA Novosti agency said that signs of equipment problems had appeared even before the crash, but space officials still gave the go for landing.

This video screenshot shows the Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Luna-25 lunar station blasting off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur Oblast of Russia's Far East on Aug. 11, 2023. Russia successfully launched the Luna-25 lunar station, embarkinThe lunar south pole is of particular interest to scientists, who believe the permanently shadowed polar craters may contain frozen water in the rocks that future explorers could transform into air and rocket fuel.

 

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