Russia launched its first Moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years today in a bid to be the first nation to make it to lunar south pole. The region is believed to hold pockets of ice, making it a potential source of water for future human presence.
, a village in Russia’s far east, during the launch because of a ‘one in a million chance’ that one of the rocket stages that launches Luna-25 could fall to Earth there.West’s sanctions over the Ukraine warThe moonshot, which Russia has been planning for decades, will also test the nation’s growing independence in space after its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine severed nearly all of Moscow’s space ties with the West, besides its integral role on the International Space Station.
The European Space Agency had planned to test its Pilot-D navigation camera by attaching it to Luna-25, but severed its ties to the project after Russia invaded Ukraine. ‘Russia’s aspirations towards the Moon are mixed up in a lot of different things,’ said Asif Siddiqi, professor of history at Fordham University, speaking to the Reuters news agency. ‘I think first and foremost, it’s an expression of national power on the global stage.’
US astronaut Neil Armstrong gained renown in 1969 for being the first person to walk on the Moon, but the Soviet Union’s Luna-2 mission was the first spacecraft to reach the Moon’s surface in 1959, and the Luna-9 mission in 1966 was the first to make a soft landing there. More recently Moscow has focused on exploring Mars, and since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has not sent scientific probes beyond Earth orbit.
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