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Russia’s First Moon Landing in Decades Ends in Failure After Crash

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Roscosmos, the country’s space program, said it lost contact with Luna 25 Saturday afternoon during its pre-landing orbit and never regained it.

Brett Bachman
Brett Bachman 

Night Editor

The lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 blasts off from a launchpad.
Roscosmos/Vostochny Space Centre/Handout via Reuters
Brett Bachman

Brett Bachman

Night Editor

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