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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?
- I think this mission is their desperate attempt to have a success so Putin doesn't draft half their workforce and tell the rest to start launching Soyuz rockets at Ukranian preschools
  
  Except the time when Rogozin was in charge, at least.
- 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...
  
  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.

Um, I didn't know there were washing machines on the moon.

Hm, not sure what this reminds me of
- I’d rather a space race over an arms race
  But sadly we’d probably just end up with both regardless.
  
  A space race is an arms race with people on the missile.
  
  Putin just needs more points to legitimize next year's "elections": The space exploration is reborn!

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