Nothing wrong about Luna-25 space crash, learn from mistake: Kremlin
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Intended to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole, Luna-25 would have marked Russia's first moon mission in 47 years amid its heated competition against India's moon mission.
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The Luna-25 mission took off in August from a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia (Roscosmos/AP)
In light of the crash of the Russian Luna-25 spacecraft, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov commented on Tuesday that there is nothing wrong with the crash or in it not succeeding.
He added that Russia needs to analyze what went wrong and carry on with its space program.
He told reporters: "We know that the path to the stars lies through thorns, so there is nothing to worry about, the main thing is to continue the Russian space program ... We know that the exploration of outer space, the implementation of complex space programs does not happen without failures, this is not a reason to despair, to tear your hair out is another reason to analyze the causes and eliminate them next time".
Luna-25 deviated from its intended orbit and subsequently crashed the Moon's surface, Roscosmos, Russia's state space corporation, announced, adding that it "entered a non-calculated orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon."
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Intended to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole, Luna-25 would've marked Russia's first Moon mission in 47 years. This incident comes amid international competition, with India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft poised for a moon landing and China and the United States advancing their lunar ambitions.
The mission from Russia was sent to investigate the lunar south pole, where experts believe there is a vast supply of water trapped in ice in the continuous shade of mountain peaks.
The last time a lunar mission was carried out was during the Soviet era, in 1976, with the launch of Luna-24 into orbit.
