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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon
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They rushed a project to compete with NASA's VIPER rover and just wanted to be first.
They were also trying to be the Indian team, who are taking a longer time using gravitational whip to send their mission to the Moonโs pole.
They were actually always pretty good at unmanned missions. This was the same design from the 1970s.
The Russians have a bunch of crashed spacecraft on Mars and no successful Mars landings.
The Soviets were also the only ones to successfully put a lander on Venus, and accomplished this in the 70s. They were a powerhouse when it came to unmanned missions: even with more primative control systems they had to work with.
Of course with the fall of the USSR all the smart people behind those successes could leave, so ...
20+ years of hardcore corruption do wonders!
Yeah historically we've used them a ton for collaborations in space architecture. I can't share too much but my team has worked with them, before my time, and they refused to make any advancements in certain systems. Since then collaboration has been incredibly difficult but not because of Russia's engineers.
That is basically the rough history of our planets space exploring ventures. American/russia one upping each other.
Well, it worked quite well during Soviet times.
Laika is still up there and happy...
There's no sources on this that I could find and It's definitely a weird thing to claim.
Why is it weird? Russian and American scientists have been competing for decades