Russia dreams of Moon despite failures and corruption scandals

While NASA's Artemis 2 mission achieves resounding success, Russia accumulates setbacks in its lunar space program.

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Russian officials face internal corruption scandals and recurring technological failures in their space projects.

These failures reduce Russian space prestige and illustrate the growing gap with Western space powers' capabilities.

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