The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole.

https://archive.li/10BV3

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.

  • UFODivebomb@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Ah yea. Who can forget the US operation

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim

    The US created the first liquid propulsion rocket. While Stalin, oh, imprisoned their scientists in the gulag.

    Plenty of SS officers and other Nazis went to Russia to make the R-1 clone of the V2. Which, btw, had a failure rate higher than the US clone.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Ahh yes, bringing German scientists and technical staff to the USSR to learn from them and then repatriating them back to the GDR 5 years later is exactly the same as putting an SS Sturmbanfuhrer who was personally in command of a facility where slave labor was worked to death into leading roles in your space program into the 1970s.

      Let's also just conveniently ignore the fact that the R-2 rocket was developed by Korolev's team in direct competition with the G-1 rocket developed by a German team working in the USSR. The USSR chose the R-2 over the G-1 specifically because it didn't want the Soviet space program being led by Germans and by 1950 had repatriated most of the German specialists.

      After 1950 the Soviet program was largely indigenous, led by Korolev and other Soviet citizens. All of the major achievements of the Soviet program were led by Soviet citizens, scientists and workers.

    • Krause [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Remember that time Americans and West Europeans thought it a good idea to put a literal German Nazi general as head of NATO? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Heusinger lol fun times

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        "We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because it is hard gives us an excuse to put Nazis in leadership positions."