Russian probe collided with the Moon's surface

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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the Earth's satellite after veering off its scheduled trajectory, Russia's space agency Roscosmos said Sunday. teleSUR

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00:00 On Sunday, Russia's space agency said that preliminary data indicates that the automatic

00:04 Luna 25 spacecraft might have crashed into the Moon.

00:08 Earlier, Roskomosk's agency had reported an emergency as the spacecraft tried to enter

00:13 pre-landing orbit ahead of a planned Monday landing.

00:17 Roskomosk lost contact with the unmanned spacecraft and efforts to locate it and establish communications

00:23 with it on August 19 and 20 yielded zero results.

00:27 Russia was hoping to make history in a race with the first country to make a soft landing

00:31 on the Moon's ice-south pole.

00:34 The agency added that the Special Inter-Departmental Commission is already investigating the cause

00:39 of the Russian lunar spacecraft crash.

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