you know what they say… gravitational orbit mechanics… is the top howdy-dodi
for lunar landing…
kris craft… says so…
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Moon: Fuck you, Russian lander.
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It is pushing up the moon-daisies.
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Per ardua ad asters.
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In fairness, the lack of civilian targets on the moon is really disorienting.
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Russia: The moon isn’t usually like this. It’s just going through a phase.
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This article in Ars Technica got posted pretty quickly. Makes me wonder if the author just had it ready to go because he knew there was a decent chance of this mission going sideways.
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Not surprised as this is the same folks that somehow accidentally had the newly added Nauka module firing thrusters and rotating the ISS until the module’s thrusters ran out of fuel. Then there was the docked Soyuz craft that started leaking air due to a botched repair of an errant drill hole during manufacturing with Roscosmos trying to attribute the leak to an astronaut wanting to leave the ISS early .
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“It said a Ministerial investigation would be opened…”
It’s OK, they’re going to have politicians investigate! (I wish this was an /s post I was making.)
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Bob Denver always was trying to get back home. After he died, I like to think he finally made it, somehow.
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It would be comical, except it’s not.
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It’s like Ken Burns level documentary all the way down baby!
After that follow it up with “Starship Troopers” (the movie, not the song silly!)
Some folks just don’t get the fascist parody embedded in a schlocky sci-fi action movie.
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it might not be quite as nefarious as the headline sounds:
Mikhail Marov, 90, was rushed to hospital following a “sharp deterioration” in his health
a stressful event that would tax people in their prime is also likely to affect someone in their nineties
( certainly sad to hear of course )
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… no, instead it would be from converting back and forth between Cyrillic and ASCII 
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Also, you think the Y2K bug was tricky? Try updating flight control software than ran on the old Soviet calendar system.
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Really? Nobody? Okay, I’ll do it.
In Soviet Russia, moon lands on you!
I’ll see myself out
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well that sounds pleasant:
five-day continuous work weeks were implemented in factories, government offices, and commercial enterprises. One of the five days was randomly assigned to each worker as their day of rest, without regard to the rest days assigned to their family members or friends… While the five-day week was used for scheduling work, the Gregorian calendar and its seven-day week were used for all other purposes.
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You win again gravity!
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