Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft CRASHES into the Moon after spinning into an uncontrolled orbit: Failure for Kremlin's first lunar mission in 50 years

Daily Mail ^ | 8/20/2023 | Reuters, Miriam Kueper

[Celtic Conservative]

On the other hand, India is nearly there.

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[AnotherUnixGeek]

We ourselves have had enough fatal and non-fatal incidents in the history of American spaceflight to not have room to gloat when it happens to other countries.

Yup, exactly. We haven't had a soft landing on the Moon ourselves in half a century. This stuff takes practice, and the more nations involved in space exploration, the better for all of us. I'm hoping India will have better luck with their lander in a couple of days.

[dangus]

Surely he’s mocking the Russian space program, no?

This is not like a Musk crash, or early NASA crash. Crashes are allowable on experimental probes. Hell, Musk truthfully said that he expected his most recently crashed rocket to crash before he launched it (although that didn’t prevent the Luddite Freepers and the Marxist press from gloating).

This, on the other hand, is an unqualified disaster.

[Alter Kaker]

More than a few times during the Cold War, Soviet leaders would embarrass American Presidents. Jimmy Carter in Afghanistan, Kennedy with the Cuban Missile Crisis, etc. etc. Conservatives - who opposed those Democrat presidents - vowed to get tough, which we did. But the communist traitors on this forum would have us join the Soviets in rooting for Brezhnev and Krushchev. No American should ever, and no loyal American could ever, root for Putin publicly or privately.

[dangus]

>> We ourselves have had enough fatal and non-fatal incidents in the history of American spaceflight to not have room to gloat when it happens to other countries. <<

Yeah, but this was not a flight test (like many early NASA crashes) or an experiment (like the recent SpaceX crash, which was an entirely successful mission despite the fact that SpaceX never even bothered supposing that it might NOT crash), but an utter, devastating failure of an entire program.

This is not “oops, now we know we need to account for...” but instead, “wtf?”

[dangus]

Amen! How did FR become a hive of unpatriotic, unAmerican traitors? It’s disgusting.

[EEGator]

He’s a paid foreign provocateur that craps all over FR daily.

He also won’t state where he’s from. He’s what the Brits call a “T***”...

[dangus]

>> We haven’t had a soft landing on the Moon ourselves in half a century. <<

We’ve had soft landings on Mars. What you’re saying is like saying that Aaron Judge hasn’t any AAA home runs in years. Yeah, major leaguers might need to go to AAA for reasons unrelated to performance, but you can’t criticize someone on something they haven’t tried to do when they’ve tried and succeeded on things much more difficult.

[PIF]

All that is left is a bunch of Chinese transistors and a whole bunch of “M&M Enterprises” dollars on the moon’s surface.

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NO!!! There’s more!! All the egg on Putin’s face

[AnotherUnixGeek]

America went to the moon six times. Russia never did

Absolutely true. Also absolutely true that we had to rely on Russia for years to get our people to the ISS and back. The more nations with space capabilities, the better - it's not like we can rely on our government and elected officials to make good decisions on our space capabilities.

[Fiji Hill]

Here's the translation from Cyrillic:

The caption reads, “Slava!” (glory)

The writing around the globe reads, “Sovetskomu Narodu, Pioneru Kosmu” ([to] the Soviet people, pioneers of space)

The writing on the helmet reads, “SSSR” (USSR)

The satellites are labeled, “Vostok (East) 1, 2, 3, 4"--the names the Soviets gave to their manned satellites.

[PIF]

At 3 meters to the pixel, Putin’s Pride and Joy should be easy to spot.

[PIF]

When dealing with space missions, sometimes you have to go back to the drawing board
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In Russia, the drawing board has wheels and has left the room.

[Alter Kaker]

How’s the Ukraine space program doing?

That's the point, I'm glad you see it. Russia, like Ukraine, is a backward third world country. The Kremlin stooges on this forum imagine Russia to be some great power and Putin some brilliant genius, when the reality is the country is a nest of backwards infrastructure and low functioning alcoholics somewhat poorer than Mexico.

[EEGator]

Good, then we don’t need to give weapons or money.

How are Mexico’s nukes doing? Space program?

[telescope115]

Sure, we’ve had tragedies (Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia), but we have also had many more triumphs- Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, the Space Shuttle…
Not to mention (but I’m gonna mention it ANYWAY) all of our planetary probes-
Russia had Venera that landed on Venus, but we have had numerous wheels on the ground on Mars, missions to Jupiter, Saturn, flybys of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, and beyond.
Russia’s space program can’t hold a candle to ours.

Hubble and Webb. We have learned a LOT about our Solar System from our space program, and how much has Russia done?

Mir? OK, I’ll give them that…

[PIF]

we can compare known astronaut and cosmonaut fatalities.

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As long as you do not count the unannounced cosmonaut deaths and the Nedelin catastrophe which itself is over 54 dead.

[Fiji Hill]

The first poster reads, “Nash triumf v kosmose; gimn strane Sovetov” (our triumph in space, hymn of the country of the Soviets)

[PIF]

At least they probably didn’t make a unit conversion error.

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And they successfully demilitarized it!

[Alter Kaker]

If Mexico decided to build a real army and invade its southern neighbors we’d give them weapons too. Like Russia, Mexico is powerful enough to be regionally destabilizing when it wants to be. But in no way is either country a peer to the United States.