development is so important. russia launched a space mission in the midst of sanctions and acknowledged it can get some of the technical parts it would normally need for a space mission. they went ahead anyway and at the time of the launch, there were critics who said well they thought they had a 50 50% chance of success. if russia successfully landed this spacecraft on the south pole of the moon it would be able to say, you sanction us and still we are able to manage this extraordinary technical achievement. instead, itappears this extraordinary technical achievement. instead, it appears the spacecraft has crashed, that s what the russian news agent agency has said. it was certainly close to the moon when things were going right. 0nly moon when things were going right. only on saturday, the russian space agency was showing off about the success of the mission. it showed some pictures from the spacecraft of the crater on the moon. it was