{"id":1996977,"date":"2023-08-10T17:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T21:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-to-launch-mission-to-the-moon-for-first-time-in-nearly-50-years\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T17:33:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T21:33:33","slug":"russia-to-launch-mission-to-the-moon-for-first-time-in-nearly-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-to-launch-mission-to-the-moon-for-first-time-in-nearly-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia plans to launch its first moon mission in almost half a century."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-to-launch-mission-to-the-moon-for-first-time-in-nearly-50-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1996977&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Russia&#8217;s Historic Mission to the Moon<\/h2>\n<p>Russia is set to embark on an extraordinary \u200cjourney to the moon, marking its first mission in nearly half a century. The state-owned\u2063 Roscosmos space agency will\u2062 launch Luna-25, a\u200c small unmanned space station,\u2064 on Friday. This groundbreaking mission aims to land \u2063on the moon&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-sends-lunar-rover-to-investigate-strange-mystery-house-on-far-side-of-moon\/\" title=\"China Sends Lunar Rover To Investigate Strange \u2018Mystery House\u2019 On Far Side Of Moon\">south pole<\/a> on\u2062 Aug.\u200c 23, racing against an Indian probe that \u200bwas sent earlier this month. Both missions share the\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-democrats-want-unity-they-must-push-back-against-their-radical-base\/\" title=\"If Democrats Want Unity, They Must Push Back Against Their Radical Base\">common goal<\/a> of studying the presence of frozen water on the moon&#8217;s poles.<\/p>\n<h3>A Quest for New Discoveries<\/h3>\n<p>Exploring the moon&#8217;s poles has proven to be a challenging \u2064feat, as no spacecraft has successfully\u200d landed there\u200b before.\u200d However, Russia&#8217;s ambitious mission seeks to\u200c change\u2064 that. Back \u200din 1976, \u2064the Soviet Union&#8217;s Luna-24\u2062 became the first craft to detect ice on\u200d the moon&#8217;s poles, sparking initial excitement. Unfortunately, the Soviets eventually shifted their focus away from lunar exploration, despite\u200d their earlier \u2064plans for lunar cities and colonization.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-to-launch-mission-to-the-moon-for-first-time-in-nearly-50-years\/\" title=\"Russia plans to launch its first moon mission in almost half a century.\">recent scientific advancements reigniting interest<\/a> in the moon, an international race to return to its surface\u2064 has begun. Alongside Russia\u200c and the\u2063 United States, countries like China, Japan,\u2064 Israel, South Korea, India, \u200dand the European Union have all launched their own moon-related missions. So far, only the\u200b U.S. has successfully landed\u200b astronauts on the moon, making Russia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasa-announces-spacex-crew-2-ahead-of-april-22-launch\/\" title=\"NASA announces SpaceX Crew-2 ahead of April 22 launch\">upcoming mission<\/a> all the\u200d more significant.<\/p>\n<h3>A Promising Future<\/h3>\n<p>Luna-25 is just the \u200dbeginning of\u2063 Russia&#8217;s lunar ambitions. \u2064The country \u200chas several planned \u200cmissions \u2062in the \u2062pipeline. Luna-26, an orbiter, will meticulously\u200b study the moon&#8217;s surface, \u200bwith a particular focus on ice distribution.\u200b Luna-27 will\u200b delve deeper into the \u2064study \u200cof ice at the\u200b moon&#8217;s south pole, while Luna-28 \u2064will bring back precious \u200dice samples to Earth for further analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Standing at an impressive 10.4 feet tall and weighing 3,858 pounds when filled with fuel, Luna-25 represents a remarkable \u200cstep forward in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-investigating-spacexs-hiring-practices-after-non-u-s-citizen-alleges-discrimination\/\" title=\"DOJ Investigating SpaceX\u2019s Hiring Practices After Non-U.S. Citizen Alleges Discrimination\">space exploration<\/a>. As Russia sets\u200d its sights on the\u2062 moon, the world eagerly awaits the groundbreaking discoveries and achievements that lie \u2063ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s Roscosmos space agency plans to launch Luna-25, its first moon mission in 50 years. The unmanned spacecraft is set to touch down on the moon&#8217;s south pole on Aug. 23, competing with an Indian probe launched on July 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1996978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}