Russia's Luna 25 spacecraft crashed into the moon after it lost contact with ground control the unmanned craft was Russia's first mission to the Moon in nearly 50 years and it was scheduled to make a soft landing on the lunar South Pole Ross Cosmos Russia's space agency said that the spacecraft had entered an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the lunar surface the cause of the crash is still under investigation but Ross Cosmos said that it may have been caused by a problem with the spacecraft's propulsion system the main
purpose of Luna 25 was to test technology for landing on the moon and the loss of the Lander during a less risky phase of the mission will add scrutiny to Russia's space struggles to get regular space updates follow the secrets of the universe
