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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On the other hand, India is nearly there.
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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.
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.
>> 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?”
Amen! How did FR become a hive of unpatriotic, unAmerican traitors? It’s disgusting.
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***”...
>> 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.
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
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.
At 3 meters to the pixel, Putin’s Pride and Joy should be easy to spot.
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.
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.
Good, then we don’t need to give weapons or money.
How are Mexico’s nukes doing? Space program?
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…
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.
The first poster reads, “Nash triumf v kosmose; gimn strane Sovetov” (our triumph in space, hymn of the country of the Soviets)
At least they probably didn’t make a unit conversion error.
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And they successfully demilitarized it!
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.
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