Perhaps they should go back to the old Soviet way of accepting initial losses and using a number of exemplars of a particular spacecraft of a specific design in order to establish and increase the reliability of this particular design over time.

In this context, one should remember the many parallel failed attempts within the framework of the Luna and Venera programs, which were necessary in order to achieve the successes on the Moon and on Venus at the same time. Roughly speaking, for every successful mission there was at least one error, which was then simply attributed to the Kosmos satellite program and thus obscured, which only really became known to the public after the fall of the Soviet Union. So it was a mistake to build only one sample of the Luna 25 probe.

Questioner: So you are aware, you remain banned from commenting because of your past refusal to abide by the rules, both for obscenities and for the use of insults. Your comments always go automatically to the trash pile. I however monitor that pile, and have been allowing your recent comments to go through because you have been behaving yourself.

If you can keep this track record going for a few more weeks, you might even get restored. Just letting you know.

Your political coordinate system is rotated 180° wrong. Perhaps you can take a cue from Colonel MacGregor (with whom I agree 100%) who, if Trump wins again, has a good chance of becoming US Secretary of Defense.

“Tucker Carlson Talks To Colonel Douglas Macgregor About The Ukraine War”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMUAaWK79Vc

Thanks!

I couldn’t find the info.

Space is cold!

https://twitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1693205212750553487

You know he remembers the heyday of space firsts…and the death of a thousand cuts.

Reuse of LVs or no…space pioneers should never be looked on as expendable.

That photo was likely taken before the crash..and he already had the expression on his face of a man whose whole reason for being is under threat.

Haven’t heard that description, before. Maybe next time, it will ‘ land with extreme prejudice.’

I was hopeful that Luna 25 would succeed. While I have no love for Russian government, I have great respect for Russian achievements in Art and Science.

Indeed a tragedy for the space and lunar science community.

David Ross: A warning only works if you pay attention to it. I have no expectation that anyone in Washington cares in the slightest that these boondoggles are a moral and economic failure. All they care about is that they get lots of corporate donations by funding these pork projects.

The Russian brain-drain had been very real, and Ukraine traditionally played an outsized role in Soviet technology, especially aerospace. So there may be disaffected people within the Russian space program.

Or was it another micrometeorite?

Jerry Greenwood: Those same garbage news stories also claimed repeatedly and ignorantly that both spacecraft were heading for Moon’s south pole, when in truth they were heading to region as far from the pole as the north coast of Alaska is from our north pole.

Both missions were planned independently. They ended up heading for the Moon at the same time purely by coincidence. They were not “racing to get there first.”

That there is a growing competition to explore and settle the solar system does not require creating a fake story to explain it.

I’m sure the Russians wouldn’t play that game but, either way, they got there first.

Glenn Beck interviews Charlie Duke, youngest astronaut to walk on the moon.
https://youtu.be/DIEvFVd-CA4