The Moon, unprovoked, collided with the Russian vessel that was approaching amicably. An old, whitened but still recognizable USA flag was planted on the Moon's surface, indicating this as a clear act of aggression from the imperialist power

ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon

lol

"As planned." -- RT

Glad it was unmanned. There's enough senseless death in the world.

If you take a look at the lunar missions for space race, you'll see many of them happened within a year of each other. It's a wonder there weren't more failures!

Compare that to today, where it took almost 20 years of planning for the Hubble telescope to come into fruition.

You shouldn't rush things in space. This is just the latest reminder.

"Russia is a world power" 🫡

A couple years back, Putin promised to put a Russian on the moon. A good question is "with what rocket?"

Turns out, an even better question is "with what communications system?" A factor in this crash is that they lack a round-the-world comm system. They can only communicate when the moon is visible over Russia. It's a big country, of course, but not big enough for 24/7 communication.

Good, because they would most probably use it to plant their stupid Z swastika on the moon, because nobody could stop them there.

"All Russia-hating Nazis were eliminated at the crash site."

I've played my share of Kerbel Space Program.

The lander made a planned flight to the moon, which included a high acceleration parking maneuver which resulted in unquestionable sucesss! To the Mun!

Oh well,... Anyway

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.

The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering problems as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.

The spacecraft was scheduled to land on Monday to explore a part of the Moon which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements.

Roscosmos, Russia's state space corporation, said on Sunday morning that it had lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after 14:57pm (11:57 GMT) 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," it said in a statement.

Russia has been racing to the Moon's south pole against India, whose Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to land on there next week.

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Oh No! . . . . . . . . Anyway!

On brand for Putin

This is what happens when one vodka's and drives.

They were looking for the Iron-Sky but got intercepted