Moscow's mission to the dark side of the Moon

Russia's unmanned lunar lander is aiming to touch down at the Moon's south pole.

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00:00 Russia plans to reboot its failed moon landing program for the first time in almost 50 years.

00:07 It plans to launch a lunar lander this Friday after multiple delays. It will do so with

00:12 a Soyuz rocket assembled at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East. The Soviet

00:17 Union`s highly secretive moon landing ambitions were shelved in 1976 and no Soviet cosmonaut

00:23 ever orbited or landed on the moon.

00:25 Russia hopes Lunar 25 will land on the moon`s south pole to take and analyze soil samples

00:30 and conduct scientific research.

00:32 (whooshing)