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Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands on moon in ‘victory cry’ of new India
By Nivedita Bhattacharjee – Reuters and published by Yahoo!News Bengaluru – An Indian spacecraft landed on the moon today (Aug. 23) in a mission seen as crucial to lunar exploration and India’s standing as a space power, just days after a similar Russian lander crashed. Previously, only the United States, China and the former […]
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Russia’s Luna-25 smashes into moon in failure
By Reuters and published by CNA Moscow – Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years failed after its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and smashed into the moon after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit, underscoring the post-Soviet decline of a once mighty space programme. Russia’s state space corporation, Roskosmos, said it had […]
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