Luna-25 crash: It’s still tough to land on the moon
23 August 2023 |
4:05 pm
From Russia's Luna-25 and India's Chandrayaan-3 to future NASA-ESA Artemis missions, moon landings are risky — same as it was for Apollo 11 in 1969.
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