The last time Russia actually tried to land anything on the Moon, in August 2023, the spacecraft crashed. What happened the last time Russia tried thisLuna-25 launched in August 2023 as Russia’s first lunar landing attempt since the Soviet Union’s Luna-24 mission in 1976, a 47 year gap. The broader programme Russia is promising to powerThe International Lunar Research Station is the joint China-Russia programme this power station is meant to serve, and its own timeline runs well past 2036. China’s Chang’e-8 mission, planned for 2028, is a robotic precursor meant to test resource-extraction technology and scout landing sites ahead of China’s first crewed lunar landing, targeted for around 2030. The gap between the target date and the track recordNone of this means a 2036 lunar power station is impossible.