Despite the Luna-25 failure, Russia is not a declining space power

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review at 21 Aug 2023, 12:00 UTC

Russia's first mission to the Moon in nearly half a century crashed over the weekend, days before its scheduled landing, prompting a new wave of commentary abut the state of Russia's space program. Daniel Duchaine cautions that, even with the failure of Luna-25, other, more worrisome aspects of its…