Russia and India are landing on the moon next week

Click Here to Read:  Russia and India are landing on the moon next week: Here’s what you need to know by Geoff Brumfiel on the NPR website on August 19, 2023
Click Here to Read: Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon, ending its bid to reach the lunar south pole on the AP website on August 20, 2023.

L3 lunar lander. The flat, downward-facing face (left) of the ovoid pressure cabin holds the round viewport (not visible). The Kontakt system passive unit is at cabin top, and two landing radar booms extend at left and right. Nozzles of two solid-fueled hold-down rockets are visible at the tops of the legs, near the bases of the radar booms.  Note that this is an earlier model than the one that crashed in August 2023. Image:

Click Here to Read:  Russia and India are landing on the moon next week: Here’s what you need to know by Geoff Brumfiel on the NPR website on August 19, 2023
Click Here to Read: Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon, ending its bid to reach the lunar south pole on the AP website on August 20, 2023.

L3 lunar lander.  Note that this is an earlier model than the one that crashed in August 2023. Image:  http://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/collections/TRS/_techrep/RP1357.pdf . Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.