The Luna-25 mission will seek to land near the south pole of the moon, collecting geological samples from the area, and sending back data for signs of water or its building blocks, which could raise the possibility of a future human colony on the moon.

  • ME5SENGER_24
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    131 year ago

    How is Russia shooting off moon rockets while engaged in war. NATO needs to up the ante and give Ukraine what they need to put the Russians under ground, not into space

    • Subverb
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      231 year ago

      It’s because of the war I’d bet. They hope to demonstrate to the world that they can walk and chew gum at the same time.

    • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)
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      201 year ago

      Honestly, I’m kinda okay with them spending money and resources on this. Better to spend resources doing this than building missiles and tanks. My only concern is that it may be serving a secondary purpose for testing new ICBM launch systems.

    • jimmydoreisaleftyOP
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      51 year ago

      We and our NATO allies are using Ukraine as we used the middle east and africa.

      Ukraine is a small country stuck in the middle of our war games.

      Our military companies will keep making money after the war building stuff back up.

      • @jcit878
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        31 year ago

        “we” didn’t invade ukraine

        • jimmydoreisaleftyOP
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          11 year ago

          War games.

          Politics plays roles in everything that has to do with money, war being one of the major donations to the wealthy.

          Middle East, Africa, Latin America.

          Reason why many come to US, we had something to do with the overthrowing of the gov’ts in place.

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s probably been in development for a decent number of years. By the time they invaded Ukraine, it may have been more difficult to cancel it if 99% of such a big mission was complete.

      Plus, Russia (with China as a partner) is looking to assert its dominance in space once again. If their partners are willing to throw in $$$, Russia will prove they are worthy of such a task & capable of providing rockets that can achieve escape velocity.

    • @cmbabul
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      01 year ago

      On the other hand let Putin burn as many resources as possible and then bring the hammer down

    • Bloops
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      -31 year ago

      Off-topic. Please engage in the topic matter! You don’t need to make everything about the war.

      • jimmydoreisaleftyOP
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        11 year ago

        Sad reality is war has a big impact on a lot of our lives.

        We just don’t see the damages first hand due to them taking place elsewhere, takes time and learning to see what things are changing.