{"id":2006838,"date":"2023-08-21T11:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-spacecraft-crashes-into-moon-during-first-lunar-mission-in-almost-50-years\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T11:40:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:40:56","slug":"russian-spacecraft-crashes-into-moon-during-first-lunar-mission-in-almost-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-spacecraft-crashes-into-moon-during-first-lunar-mission-in-almost-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian spacecraft crashes into moon during first lunar mission in nearly half a century."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Frussian-spacecraft-crashes-into-moon-during-first-lunar-mission-in-almost-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=2006838&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--><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian<\/a> spacecraft crashed into\u200c the moon\u200d over \u200cthe\u200b weekend, days before scientists had planned to\u2063 land \u200bthe craft there to\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-spacecraft-crashes-into-moon-during-first-lunar-mission-in-almost-50-years\/\" title=\"Russian spacecraft crashes into moon during first lunar mission in nearly half a century.\">test landing\u200b technology<\/a> and\u200b search for water. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Luna-25 lander was supposed to be the first\u2063 Russian\u2062 craft to reach the moon since the 1970s, but Russian scientists lost contact during the\u200d mission, and it crashed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/russias-moon-mission-falters-after-problem-entering-pre-landing-orbit-2023-08-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> \u200d to Roscosmos, Russia\u2019s \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasa-will-keep-its-partnership-with-russian-space-agency\/\" title=\"NASA Will Keep Its Partnership With Russian Space Agency\">state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/europe-abandons-mars-mission-amid-russia-sanctions-war\/\" title=\"Europe Abandons Mars Mission Amid Russia Sanctions War\">space corporation<\/a><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe \u200capparatus\u200d moved into \u2063an unpredictable orbit and \u2062ceased to \u2064exist as a result of\u2063 a collision with the surface \u2064of the Moon,\u201d Roscosmos\u2064 said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A\u2064 commission has \u2062been formed to investigate what led to the crash of the Luna-25, which is \u2062just\u2063 the latest Russian space mission to go awry. The \u200clast Russian \u2064moon \u2064exploration took place in 1976 when Luna-24 was\u2064 launched. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Russia\u2019s space corporation\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/russia-luna-25-spacecraft-crashes-moon-lunar-south-pole-rcna100839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had hoped<\/a> that Luna-25 would prove the country \u2063was \u201ccapable of \u2063delivering a payload to the moon\u201d and \u200c\u201censure Russia\u2019s\u2062 guaranteed access to\u2062 the moon\u2019s surface.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Luna-25 was supposed to land on\u2064 the moon\u2019s south pole, where no other spacecraft has \u200cever made a landing. Some say the area may be home to\u2064 precious \u200celements and frozen\u200c water. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe first goal is\u200b to find the water, to confirm\u200c that it is there \u2026 to\u2062 study its abundance,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-united-states-space-race-moon-launch-roscosmos-nasa-china-vladimir-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Olga Zakutnyaya, who works at Moscow\u2019s Space Research\u2063 Institute at the Russian\u200b Academy of Sciences, earlier this month. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Russia has\u2064 faced technological \u2062and financial challenges in recent years, problems that have only been\u200b exacerbated by \u200bthe cost of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ukraine-russia-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">war \u2064with \u2063Ukraine<\/a> \u2062and the \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lindsey-graham-doubles-down-on-calls-for-putins-assassination\/\" title=\"Lindsey Graham Doubles Down On Calls For Putin\u2019s Assassination\">massive economic sanctions<\/a> \u200dplaced on it by Western countries over the\u200d invasion. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2063 is so sad that it was not \u2063possible to land the apparatus,\u201d said Mikhail Marov, a 90-year-old physicist and\u2064 astronomer who worked in the\u2062 Soviet \u200cspace \u2062program decades ago. \u201cThis was \u200dperhaps the last hope for me to see a revival\u200b of our lunar program.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Russia may work with China on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/space-stations-italian-commander-with-lookalike-barbie-tells-girls-about-science-in-orbit\/\" title=\"Space station\u2019s Italian commander, with lookalike Barbie, tells girls about science in orbit\">future space missions<\/a>, with plans for Lunar-26, \u2062Lunar-27, \u2062and \u2063Lunar-28.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An Indian \u200bspacecraft, the Chandrayaan-3, will attempt \u2064to land on the moon\u2062 on August 23, a mission the Russians were \u200dcompeting against. India \u200bwould be the\u2062 fourth country to\u2064 have\u2062 a craft land on the moon, following the U.S.,\u200b the Soviet \u2062Union, and China. A previous \u2062spacecraft from India crashed into the moon\u200b in 2019. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian spacecraft crashed into the moon before planned tests and water search. The Luna-25 lander aimed to be Russia&#8217;s first moon mission since the 1970s. 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