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A rocket with a lunar landing craft blasts off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years

www.thehindu.com A rocket with a lunar landing craft blasts off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years

Russia launched Luna-25, its first moon mission in 50 years, to land on Earth's satellite ahead of India's Chandrayaan-3.

“Study of the moon is not the goal,” said Vitaly Egorov, a popular Russian space analyst. “The goal is political competition between two superpowers — China and the USA — and a number of other countries which also want to claim the title of space superpower.”

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I don't question Russian science or engineering, but is this project going to run into the same sorts of issues their war has?
- Considering levels of corruption in the last few years and hard brain drain I guess Russian space exploration is doomed. Thanks, Putin!
- Foe years America used Russian rockets to get things into space.
  
  "Russian components, American components... ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!"
  
  ~~Russian~~ Soviet
  
  People, not things. America didn't have man-rated rockets between 2012 and 2020.
- No Russia beat the us in almost every metric for space flight, we got to the moon first and that's all anyone remembers.
  They're a lot of things but their space program is pretty boss.
  You can downvote but it will still be just at true.
  
  And in the end its all German tech they stole...
  
  America and our German scientists, and Russia and their German scientists...
  Let's not act like operation paperclip wasn't a rat race for both.
  
  They didn't steal German tech, Germany caused two worlds wars and war prizes were taken including technology and scientists.
  
  Setting aside the fact that looting a country you beat in a war is still very much stealing, Germany didn't cause the great war and if you understood an iota of history you'd realize that. Did they use it to advance their own causes and take land/resources? Yeah. Pretty much the standard MO for every country that's ever been in a war, though. Weird to single them out for their actions in WW1 in that regard.
  
  Germany caused two worlds war
  Blocked
  
  You can downvote but it will still be just at true.
  No, it isn't. Space Shuttle for one thing, many Telescopes, Sat's...and so on. Russia hasn't done shit. Even the ISS Modules from Russia are crap and the ones that make the most problems.
  
  The space shuttle was 30 years after the space race homie. Also incorrect, NASA itself disagrees that it was Russia alone at fault.

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