Russia launches Luna-25 mission in race to sample moon's south pole

 

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A Soyuz-2 Fregat rocket carrying a lunar landing craft blasted off on what Russia hopes will be its first successful moon landing mission in nearly 50 years. The unmanned Luna-25's mission to the moon that is expected to take about five days and will seek to land near the south pole of the moon, collecting geological samples from the area. India’s Chandrayaan-3 space probe entered the moon’s orbit earlier this week, and will also explore the water-rich area near the south pole Moon rocket blasts off, carrying Russia’s hope of first successful lunar landing since 1976 Lunar Codex: digitised works of 30,000 artists to be archived on moon