Tag: Russia's Luna-25

Russia's ambitions for lunar exploration faced a setback as the Luna-25 probe, the nation's first Moon mission in almost fifty years, crashed on the lunar surface while executing pre-landing maneuvers. Following this incident, one of the prominent physicists and astronomers involved in the mission, Mikhail Marov, aged 90, was urgently hospitalised in Moscow. As reported by the Independent, Marov's health took a sharp decline over the weekend subsequent to the mission's failure. According to statements made to the RBC news channel and the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, the astronomer...