Posted on 08/20/2023 4:44:52 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russia's first moon mission in 47 years failed after its Luna-25 space craft spun out of control and smashed into moon.
Russia's state space corporation, Roskosmos, said it had lost contact with the craft shortly after a problem occurred as the craft was shunted into pre-landing orbit on Saturday.
'The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon,' Roskosmos said in a statement.
Moscow had earlier reported an 'abnormal situation' with the craft.
'During the operation, an abnormal situation occurred on board the automatic station, which did not allow the manoeuvre to be performed with the specified parameters,' the agency said in a statement.
Failure for the prestige mission underscores the decline of Russia's space power since the glory days of Cold War competition when Moscow was the first to launch a satellite to orbit the Earth - Sputnik 1, in 1957 - and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space in 1961.
Russia has not attempted a moon mission since Luna-24 in 1976, when Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Kremlin.
Russian sources are already blaming endemic corruption inside the agency for the failure of the mission. Putin is expected to axe top space officials over the disaster.
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Bereft of life.
And somehow no mothers were blown up.
It’s almost like the Ukrainians were using civilian areas for military purposes.
Tell me, why doesn’t your useless Israel do something?
We is plural douche bag.
It’s not hard. If you can read Greek, you can read Cyrillic;D
I’m the product of public schooling and a divorced home.
At least I haven’t been arrested...
Russia having another cluster f@#$ is “globalist propaganda”?
“America doesn’t come out so good by comparison at 4 cosmonaut deaths to 15 astronaut deaths. (And it’s even more lopsided if you include fatal training incidents.)”
How many manned missions did the old Soviet Union fly, and how many manned missions did the US? You fly more missions, you get more fatalities.
The 2nd is true.
“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.”
This was non-fatal, because it was not a manned flight. As for gloating, don’t knock it if you haven’t tried it.
That’s too bad. The old space race is long over now it should be a general effort to gather data. I applaud any country’s peaceful scientific efforts. Good luck to IndiaHear! Hear!
No more foriegn aid to anyone.
“Stop embarrassing yourself with such juvenile behavior. It’s unseemly.”
I’m rubber. You’re glue. Everything you say bounces off of me and sticks to you. No changees. No nothing.
Ahem. Juvenile behavior is unseemly? מה פתאום?
Russia is a 3rd World Country with nukes. Neo- Cons should shut up forever for considering it a threat to the US.
My overall point being that the apparent need to gloat about the failure of another country’s space mission (and we’re talking about an unmanned lunar lander, not some military op) strikes me as not only bizarre, but needlessly petty.
A normal reaction: “Well, that sucks. Hope the next one goes better, and that if human error was involved it gets resolved appropriately.”
Not the Cold War-era “Haha Russkies’ spacecraft go boom” I’ve been seeing on this thread.
(Because doing the latter opens you up to get dunked on for past failures. Like how we lost the Mars Climate Orbiter due to forgetting to convert measurements.)
Definition: "contemplate or dwell on one's own success or another's misfortune with smugness or malignant pleasure."
It's the "smugness" and "malignant pleasure" part that should be the reason not to gloat (as compared to celebrating one's own success within due reason). And also because gloating makes one look like a jackass by default.
Juvenile behavior is unseemly?
From a grown adult? Yes, that should go without saying.
Then they are not a threat, and our money, intel, training, and weapons are not needed.
Yes
To infinity and...
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I mean, you hit on exactly what happened but you don't even know it.
If I were President, nothing the PLA launched would reach second stage for my entire term.
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