Russia successfully launched its first lunar space mission in nearly 50 years.

<div class="block">Russia successfully launched its first lunar space mission in nearly 50 years.</div>

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Russia Launches First Lunar Mission in Almost 50 Years

And Russia successfully launched their first lunar space mission in nearly 50 years. The lunar 25 spacecraft is expected to orbit the earth then shift to a lunar orbit eventually land on the lunar south pole on August 23rd, an Indian spacecraft is expected to make contact on the same date. The head of Russia Space Exploration Agency said, quote, I think that in the future, the moon will be a launching pad for exploring deep space distant planets. Now, the last time a Russian spacecraft landed on the moon was in 1976. Now, after sanctions were imposed Russia after the Ukrainian War, they said they were having a hard time getting a lot of the technology that we have in the West. They're saying their electronics is a lot heavier than typically ours. Ours are as well. But he said their task right now is to simply land on the moon. Our scientists are looking at, you know, they're studying water and he's like right now, we're just trying to get to the moon and we're going to take it from there.