Russian space agency’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into moon

Roscosmos said it lost contact with the spacecraft on Saturday

The Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 automatic station takes off from a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. Picture: Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP

Russia’s robot lander the Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit, the country’s space agency Roscosmos reported.

“The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the moon,” read a statement from the agency.