Russia’s Luna-25 has crashed on the Moon’s surface, the country’s space agency said Sunday in a disappointing end to its first mission to the lunar surface 47 years after the last landing by the former Soviet Union.

This leaves India’s Chandrayaan-3 on course to become the first spacecraft to land near the lunar south pole.

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