Putin and Russia’s lunar mishap

Knowing Vladimir Putin, I don’t think he felt particularly happy when his Luna-25 spacecraft collided with the surface of the moon after communication was interrupted according to state media TASS, citing Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos. 

The spacecraft was meant to be Russia’s first lunar landing mission in 47 years. According to preliminary calculations, Luna-25 “switched to an off-design orbit”before the collision. 

A Russian scientist who worked on Putin's disastrous moon mission has been rushed to hospital after he demanded"no cover ups". What’s interesting (and not surprising)is that the top guy at the space agency, Mikhail Marov suffered a"sharp deterioration" in his health after the probe smashed into the lunar surface. That must have been quite a shock for him because he had declared that this particular mission was his “lifework”. 

As Russia is fast becoming incompetent at all levels, I told Putin he got distracted by Ukraine so much that Russia can’t do anything right anymore, but he didn’t answer me (I’ll probably get poisoned for that!) and only muttered that it was Zelensky’s fault. 

Personally,I think that like he did with his Ukraine war efforts by hiring the Wagner Group, Putin should now subcontract his space program to Elon Musk who, after having cleaned up Twitter and turned it into X, has some time open to screw up something new. 

At least that’s my idea,especially after Dmitry Rogozin, the leader of Russia’s space program, has invited Musk to come to Kazakhstan for the launch of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft carrying three Russians to the International Space Station. 

They could share ideas and perhaps write a fat check to Trump’s legal defense fund. Just a thought…