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Russian astronomer who advised Putin's failed Luna-25 mission to the Moon is rushed to hospital over 'sharp deterioration in his health' - after unmanned spacecraft CRASHED
2023-08-21
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Mikail Marov, 90, suffered a 'sharp deterioration' in his health following the crash

  • The Luna-25 mission ended in failure after the spacecraft span out of control
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Posted by:Skidmark

#12  All just "western media fairytales."

/sarc

/heh...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-08-21 15:41  

#11  It still exists. It's just in a lot of pieces.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2023-08-21 15:21  

#10  He's over ninety (90!), good grief, people that old do that.

See Biden.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-08-21 10:27  

#9  Just remember how range safety works in Russia!

Otto : [Pulls out a card] I'm a party member. Paid up 'til December. They need me there. I'm a missile scientist.
Peripetchikoff : Ah, that is one thing where we're ahead of America. In Cape Canaveral if missile goes wrong, they press special button and Pow! It blows up. But in Russia, we have two buttons.
Otto : [Smiling] Two buttons?
Peripetchikoff : One to blow up missile, one to blow up scientist.
Posted by: Vinegar Spolusing6485   2023-08-21 09:22  

#8  Isn't the point of an orbit predictability?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-08-21 09:17  

#7  "The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit..."

Sounds like much of the halls of Congress
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-08-21 08:59  

#6  "The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon"

In other news, lunar seismometers report upon impact the Moon went "BONG..." and observers speculate, a hard candy shell.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-08-21 08:57  

#5  90 years old...yeah, it probably wouldn't take much.

BTW, we sure don't hear much about that Sputnik V Fauci Flu vaccine, do we?

Maybe it is a double-edged sword. If a rousing success, the west (Pfizer & Moderna) would not want us to hear about it. If it was just as bad a Pfizer and Moderna, the west (Pfizer & Moderna) would not want us to hear about it.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-08-21 08:56  

#4  He's over ninety (90!), good grief, people that old do that.
Posted by: magpie   2023-08-21 08:52  

#3  OK, we've had poisonings, falls from high places, and helicopter crashes.
Any thoughts on spontanious human combustion making a comeback?
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-08-21 08:09  

#2  Russians aren't very big on testing. Did they even do full mission run throughs and verification while the lander was in the lab?
Posted by: Enver Slager8035   2023-08-21 01:02  

#1  The culprit???

Posted by: Deadeye Ebbosing4813   2023-08-21 00:51  

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