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Russia's Luna-25 Crashes Into Moon

The Russian moon lander was scheduled to land on the moon on August 21st, but instead spun out of control and crashed into the moon.

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MOSCOW - After Russia launched its first moon lander in nearly 50 years on the Soyuz-2 Fregat rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on August 11th, the Luna-25, which was scheduled to land on the moon on August 21st instead crashed into the moon after a failed orbital adjustment. 

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Russian state news said that the Luna-25 automatic station "switched to an …

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