{"id":2006345,"date":"2023-08-20T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T19:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-russian-lunar-mission-in-47-years-ends-with-spacecraft-crashing-into-moon\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T15:54:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T19:54:39","slug":"first-russian-lunar-mission-in-47-years-ends-with-spacecraft-crashing-into-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-russian-lunar-mission-in-47-years-ends-with-spacecraft-crashing-into-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian lunar mission ends with spacecraft crashing into moon after 47 years."},"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\">24<\/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%2Ffirst-russian-lunar-mission-in-47-years-ends-with-spacecraft-crashing-into-moon%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=2006345&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--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Visitors stand next to a mockup of a \u200bnew Russian orbital space\u200c station, presented by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, during the Army-2022 International Military-Technical \u200dForum \u2064at the Russian Armed Forces\u2019 Patriot Park in Kubinka, outside Moscow on\u200c August 16, 2022. (Photo\u200d by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/brooke-mallory\">Brooke Mallory<\/a><br \/>12:42 PM \u2013 Sunday, August 20, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s first lunar mission in almost 50 years ended when its unmanned\u200b Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed into the moon after reportedly experiencing a glitch while preparing for \u2063pre-landing orbit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Russia \u200banticipated that the prestige mission would demonstrate that they could still compete\u2063 in space travel, despite the\u2062 nation\u2019s post-Soviet fall and preoccupations with the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p>The Luna-25 mission, which launched on August 11<sup>th<\/sup>, was \u200dRussia\u2019s first attempt to send a spacecraft to\u200b the moon since the \u200cLuna-24 \u2064mission in 1976.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ISRO and \u200dRoscosmos Moon Race Begins <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/weEQIZfpx2\">pic.twitter.com\/weEQIZfpx2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Space and Technology\u200c (@spacetech94) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spacetech94\/status\/1692189332642410552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The mission\u2019s abrupt end underscored Russia\u2019s collapse in space authority since the Cold War, when Moscow was the first \u200dto launch a satellite into orbit, Sputnik 1.<\/p>\n<p>Roscosmos, Russia\u2019s \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-russian-lunar-mission-in-47-years-ends-with-spacecraft-crashing-into-moon\/\" title=\"Russian lunar mission ends with spacecraft crashing into moon after 47 years.\">official space organization<\/a>, lost touch\u200b with the spacecraft at\u200b around 11:57 GMT on Saturday when the ship began having problems while preparing \u2064for pre-landing orbit, according to \u200cthe agency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe apparatus moved\u2063 into an \u200bunpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon,\u201d Roscosmos representatives said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Russian authorities, a special \u2062interdepartmental\u2062 panel has been constituted to investigate the ship\u2019s failure.<\/p>\n<p>Luna-25 was scheduled to touch down on Monday, and the loss comes as \u200dRussia\u2019s $2 trillion economy\u200d faces Western sanctions \u2063as well as Europe\u2019s longest land battle since World \u2064War\u200c II.<\/p>\n<p>As word of \u2064Russia\u2019s crashed craft\u2062 spread, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced that its latest rival spacecraft will be scheduled to\u2063 land\u200b on the moon\u2019s south pole this week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cIndia\u2019s Chandrayaan-3 is set\u2064 to \u200bland on the moon on August 23,\u201d the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) posted on X, formerly\u2064 known as Twitter,\u2064 around the time news of the Luna crash broke.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Similar concerns arose over a decade earlier \u200cwith the disastrous Fobos-Grunt \u200bmission in 2011, when Russia\u2019s Mars-bound spacecraft could not\u2063 leave Earth\u2019s\u200b orbit before crashing into the Pacific Ocean in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! 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