{"id":12901,"date":"2023-08-11T22:32:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T22:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12901"},"modified":"2023-08-12T22:34:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T22:34:45","slug":"pooty-poot-invades-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/08\/11\/pooty-poot-invades-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pooty-poot Invades The Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/russia-aims-to-restore-prestige-in-race-to-moons-south-pole-86c25170\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/russia-aims-to-restore-prestige-in-race-to-moons-south-pole-86c25170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Russia Aims to Restore Prestige in Race to Moon\u2019s South Pole<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Success could signal Moscow\u2019s ability to overcome sanctions and demonstrate its technological prowess, but the challenges are severe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/author\/ann-m-simmons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ann M. Simmons<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-833990\/?width=1278&amp;size=1\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Soyuz rocket carrying the Luna-25 lander blasts off at Russia\u2019s Vostochny Cosmodrome .\u00a0HANDOUT\/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE\/GETTY IMAGES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia\u2019s launch of its first lunar lander in nearly 50 years on Friday, an attempt to become the first country to reach the south pole of the moon, is a symbolic moment for a country anxious to prove it still has the technological capabilities befitting a great world power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The difficulties are manifold, from executing a successful launch to actually landing a probe on the rugged terrain at the pole on Aug. 21.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-west-sanctioned-russias-billionaires-now-they-are-fighting-back-836ee65?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Western sanctions<\/a>\u00a0stemming from its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ukraine-uses-small-unit-tactics-to-retake-captured-territory-from-russia-d9ef32a3?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">war in Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0mean Moscow has fewer collaborators than it might have had in the past. Russian scientists are also racing against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/india-rockets-into-the-global-space-race-4553f159?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a similar mission from India<\/a>, and expect to land their own probe first. \u201cWe will now wait for the 21st,\u201d Yury Borisov, head of the Roscosmos space agency, told workers at the Vostochny Cosmodrome following the launch, the Russian news agency Interfax reported. \u201cI hope that there will be a highly precise soft landing on the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from boosting Russian prestige, a first-ever landing at the pole could be a valuable step forward in expanding scientists\u2019 understanding of whether there could be sufficient quantities of ice there to provide fuel, oxygen and drinking water to support a possible human settlement in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/russia-aims-to-restore-prestige-in-race-to-moons-south-pole-86c25170\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/russia-aims-to-restore-prestige-in-race-to-moons-south-pole-86c25170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal Russia Aims to Restore Prestige in Race to Moon\u2019s South Pole Success could signal Moscow\u2019s ability to overcome sanctions and demonstrate its technological prowess, but the challenges are severe By\u00a0Ann M. Simmons Russia\u2019s launch of its first lunar lander in nearly 50 years on Friday, an attempt to become the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}