On September 14, 1959, The Soviet Union’s Luna 2 spacecraft became the first man-made object to make contact with the Moon – slamming into its surface and completing its lunar impactor mission.
After that momentous achievement, the USSR shifted its focus away from impactors, and eventually became the first country, in 1966, to successfully complete a soft landing on the Moon.
A few months later, NASA‘s Surveyor 1 became the first U.S. spacecraft to conduct a soft lunar landing – a mission which paved the way for the manned Apollo missions and eventually Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin becoming the first humans to set foot on the celestial body’s surface.
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But, Russia’s first mission to the moon in nearly half a century (the last mission – Luna-24 was in 1976) came to an unexpectedly violent end when its unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed into the moon after encountering a problem as it began preparing for pre-landing orbit.
A picture taken from the camera of the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 during its flight to the moon shows the mission emblem and the bucket of the lunar manipulator complex, August 15, 2023.
In a delightfully-worded statement, Russian space agency Roscosmos said:
“According to the results of a preliminary analysis… the Luna-25 spacecraft switched to a non-designated orbit and ceased to operate due to a collision with the surface of the Moon.”
Luna-25 was launched on August 11 by a Soyuz 2.1b rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur Region of Russia’s Far East.
The landing of the probe was supposed to happen days before the arrival of India’s own Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, which is scheduled to reach the same area of the moon on Wednesday, according to the Indian Space Research Organization, the country’s space agency.
A rocket carrying Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft launched earlier this month.
As The Wall Street Journal reports, Russia was racing with India to become the first nation to land a rover on the area of the moon that scientists believe could hold water and other elements that could support a human settlement in the future.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said Thursday (Aug. 17) its Chandrayaan-3 moon lander is now flying on its own after separating from the propulsion module that brought it to lunar realms.
“Thanks for the ride, mate,” ISRO officials tweeted from the mission’s account, as the agency announced the successful deployment ahead of the expected moon-landing attempt on Aug. 23.
The 6-billion-rupee (roughly $73 million) Chandrayaan-3 mission aims to bring India on to the surface with a precise landing near the moon’s south pole.
Only the United States, the former Soviet Union and China have made soft landings on the surface before.
Finally, as we detailed previously, China, which along with the U.S. is a leading country in space technology, has agreed to pursue a project to establish a human settlement on the moon together with Russia, but this weekend’s crash of the Luna-25 could mean that Moscow, which is the junior partner in the relationship, has less to offer than originally assumed.
China has accelerated its space program in recent years, and is currently the only country (known) to have landed anything on the moon in the 21st century. The CCP also landed a lunar probe on the moon’s far side for the first time in history in 2019.
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Space telescope can see billions of light years into the cosmos. Earth or space telescopes have never shown / photographed lunar landing sites , tire tracks , LEM module lower half supposedly left there.
Yah…seems kind of strange doesn’t it. Aren’t they always landing on the back side of the moon also so nobody can see them because they AREN’T even on the moon.
Buzz Aldrin recently admitted the landings were fake on bitchute…
Telescopes don’t work by letting you see FARTHER. They work by letting you see fainter and smaller.
When you are driving across Eastern Colorado, you can see the Rocky Mountains 80 miles away — but you can’t see the Motel 6 sign that is only 3 miles away.
Yes, a space telescope can see a galaxy a billion light years away, but comparatively speaking, a lunar lander 250,000 miles away is smaller and harder to see.
Even without a telescope the human eye can see the Andromeda Galaxy 2.5 million light years away. How big is a galaxy? Bigger than we think. So big that with a telescope you can see one a billion light years away.
But what about their pronouns? What about diversity, equity or inclusion???
Evil Russians are not woke….
Incoming moon conspiracy rants…
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Is that you Stephanie?
I don’t know. Apparently I’m not real.
SS- Don’t feel bad, our moon landings weren’t real either. If Russia succeeded, it’s one more than we have ever accomplished. (cough)
out of all the conspiracy theories, the moon landings are my favorite.
why? because even the biggest retard should be able to identify this hoax.
Its really neat how they fit a folding car in the LEM and they had enough room to move around inside suited up with those giant a/c cooler backpacks. Even as a youngster my brain was telling me the size relationships presented just did not seem right, but hey , TV said it was real so we bought it…. for a while.
The lunar lander was made of the same stuff as Felix the Cat’s magic bag of tricks. Come on, everyone knows that.
Says the Qtard who thinks Trump and the whitehats are playing 64D chess.
Why are you so obsessed with me? I think you need to get over it already.
(different anon here)
You could always post anonymously. That could solve the problem.
🙂
I’m not worried about it. This isn’t my only account on TBP.
(different anon here)
I am beginning to wonder just how many actual people post here.
Several posters have said they have multiple handles, Anonymous could be any number or as low as 1 (well 2, I’m 1), and a few seem to make new socks regularly.
There’s a few people who’ve been on here for years who’ve changed their accounts/handles as they’ve changed over the years. It’s nothing nefarious or anything. Just sometimes you outgrow a moniker and move onto a new one.
Says the Qtard who said they would never raise the debt ceiling.
You need to go find someone else to validate you.
“Everything in the Durham report was posted by Q years ago.”
“At a time when the Deep State was trying to find ANY reason to get rid of Trump nobody wanted to investigate and prosecute the person who was leaking this information online. WHY?”
“Because it’s real. Someone within Trump’s inner circle had permission to post open source information to guide people to the conclusions in the Durham report 5 years in advance.”
This you? 😂
All this attention seeking is sad. SMH.
Stephanie – I have decided to completely ignore the anonymous posters. Unless it is a meme/joke, I do not read it. I do not respond and I do not up/down vote. The explosion in anonymous posters has hurt the congeniality on TBP.
If all the known posters would follow this advice, they might get tired of trolling and move on to a different site.
I came to the same conclusion.
Me too.
Good to know…
@TN Patriot
Thanks for the advice. But I’m purposely making myself a target. Let the Anon flying monkeys do their worse.
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totally agree. I’ve disagreed with many on TBP from time to time but respect most of them. Some I respect a lot. Robert Gore, Uncola, HSF, Stucky,BL There are others that have been omitted.
Who would validate an idiot troll like your Anonymous online stalker? The guy is just a loser.
So Zerohedge is now a comedy site. Who knew?
Plenty.
Go India… Next try indoor plumbing and paved roads…
Maybe when India gets REALLY advanced, they will do it the way San Francisco does; the toilets and the roads are THE SAME.
Frisco is a giant toilet…
Yes. Make fun of India while illegals and fentanyl flood our streets; tent cities spring up in our big cities; industrial “accidents”, derailments, and fires destroy and pollute our environment; we ship money over to a lost cause called Ukraine and fail to update our infrastructure; we leave millions of dollars worth of weapons in Afghanistan for terrorists to use against us in the future; we have a corrupt senile pedophile for president; and our military recruits perverts and retards to defend our country. Who do you think the World is laughing at, “Coprolite”?
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Why not? It’s not because more of our own people moved here.
Whoever could have seen this coming?
I’d call it a yuge success. They made the point in no uncertain terms that they can afford to run a space program and prosecute a war at the same time without batting an eye. Psychological warfare at its finest if you ask me.
Isn’t that the entire point of a space program to begin with? To demonstrate to the world how much better than you are than they? “We can literally afford to shoot money at the moon!”
Oh but we have lost the technology to return. All film negatives from the mission were destroyed. The secret formula must have been among them.
Now we have to figure it out all over again. How will we ever perform the calculations? We have no more 8bit 1MHz computers.
Show that the United States is serious about the new moon race: offer to send the entire Bite-em family (minus the cutie 4yo unwanted granddaughter) so they can claim rights to minerals and the soon to be moon tourist industry. Ten percent baby!!
Well, technically, Israel had an impactor also…
Israel’s lunar mission contained tardigrades encased in Amber like resin, highly likely they survived. It’s possible to locate life on the moon after all.
Just wait until we launch those black female astronauts on our next mission.
Russia has nothing on us.
black female TRANS astronauts … that identify as toxic white men! (sarc)
Moon people shot it down.
US secret space program shot it down
It got too close to the black monolith
Space travel is dangerous, both the US and Russia have had multiple failures from the very start, along with some successes.
Everything comes with risks. “Safe as in your mother’s arms” don’t mean shit when momma drops you on your head! Looking at society, I’d estimate that happens damned often!
Hell. I wouldn’t even set foot in an airport, let alone get on a plane!
So even with the most powerful computers, and all of todays technology, todays scientists and engineers are struggling and failing to be able to land on the moon. But they expect you to believe that back in 1969 we could just wing it, and successfully land and take off every single time we tried….. Yea, I believe that… Sure.