Mission to the Moon: Who will win Russian and India’s race to the lunar South Pole?

This Article First Appeared In The BBC.Com On August 11, 2023

Right now, a mini space race is afoot. Two spacecraft, one Russian and the other Indian are headed for the South Pole of the Moon – where no lander has ever successfully gone before. The Russian and Indian vehicles are on competing quests to search for water ice and potentially useful minerals that might be tucked away in the lunar dust.

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