Russia

Russia Launches First Moon-Landing Mission in Almost 50 Years

BLAST OFF

A new international space race is on to find water on the lunar surface.

Dan Ladden-Hall
Dan Ladden-Hall 

Breaking News Editor

A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage and the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, Aug. 11, 2023.
Roscosmos via Reuters
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