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.

It was Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years.

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

No country has ever landed on the south pole before, although both the US and China have landed softly on the Moon's surface.

No report on whether or not Russia was attempting to use repurposed anti-ship missiles like the ones they use to attack schools and hospitals here on Earth.

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[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The soviet union destroyed itself because it was an unstable pile of dogshit.

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wonder why it was made unstable in the first place? Ever wondered who contributed to the illegal dissolution of the USSR?

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

That states had to react to threats from the US never crosses their mind. The whole dissolution of the USSR and subsequent pillaging played out on the nightly news for years and I've never met a liberal that remembers it. They do vaguely remember that the USSR had an aggressive security state but can't ever understand why.

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Most thoughtful liberal political analysis.

[–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Man, we needed you decades ago. Imagine how much money we could have saved on thr cold war. All that threatening to destroy the planet for nothing. The genocides we did? Judt big oopsies