“Russia launched a spacecraft Friday that is headed to the moon — its first attempt since 1976, around when the Soviet Union and United States were in deep competition for space dominance during the Cold War,” the Washington Post reports.
“Moscow is now hoping to make history, in a race to be the first country to make a soft landing on the moon’s icy south pole.”
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