Is Luna 25 alive?

[taiwan_girl]

I actually did not realize that India also had a spaceship approaching a landing on the moon.

https://www.space.com/chandrayaan-3-vs-luna-25-lunar-pole-showdown

[Axtremus]

May be the will blame Ukrainian computer virus or cyberattack.

[bachophile]

Well it’s the titan submersible all over again. Minus the passengers of course

[jon-nyc]

Best comment on Twitter:

If the sky is clear tonight and you have a good telescope, you may be able to make out a Ukrainian farmer towing the wreckage away

[Darth Putin]

[Mik]

Luna isn't. Neither is its creator. 'Indedible mushrooms". Putin's going to run out of Russians.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-poisoning-top-russian-rocket-scientist-suspiciously-dies-weeks-after-failed-moon-landing/ar-AA1g2UtY?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=3afb4c0d12d74cf496aa9436bed68c29&ei=15

[Copper]

What a great inspiration for rocket scientists who want to live.

[Renauda]

@Mik said in Is Luna 25 alive?:

Luna isn't. Neither is its creator. 'Indedible mushrooms". Putin's going to run out of Russians.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-poisoning-top-russian-rocket-scientist-suspiciously-dies-weeks-after-failed-moon-landing/ar-AA1g2UtY?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=3afb4c0d12d74cf496aa9436bed68c29&ei=15

Wild mushroom gathering is a national pastime in Russia. People learn from childhood what can be eaten and what cannot. Rule of thumb is always if you aren’t sure, don’t eat it.

Suspicious.

[Mik]

It is here too. And everyone is very certain before they eat any.

[taiwan_girl]

I could not access the linked article, but one I read said that "He was admitted to the hospital on Aug. 11, the same day a Soyuz rocket carrying the Luna 25 robotic spacecraft launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East."

Maybe this was just an accident?

[Renauda]

@taiwan_girl

Maybe suicide when he reviewed the math and realised that he had failed to convert to metric.

Since my earlier post I have since learned that the deceased was considered something of a nutter inside Russia.

Not that that means much of anything under the present circumstances in that country.

[George K]

@Renauda said in Is Luna 25 alive?:

the deceased was considered something of a nutter inside Russia.

Not that that means much of anything under the present circumstances in that country.

So he would have fit right in, right?

[Renauda]

One would think so.

[George K]

[Mik]

@Renauda said in Is Luna 25 alive?:

One would think so.

One can be forgiven, I think, for suspecting foul play.