Moon rocket blasts off, carrying Russia’s hope of first successful lunar landing since 1976
by Andrew Roth Moscow correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#6DQKK)
The Luna-25 mission will try to land near the south pole of the moon, seeking signs of water or its components
A Soyuz-2 Fregat rocket carrying a lunar landing craft has blasted off on what Russia hopes will be its first successful moon landing mission in nearly 50 years.
The unmanned Luna-25 mission launched in the early hours of Friday on a journey to the moon that is expected to take about five days. A landing date has not been announced.
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