Scientist Behind Failed Lunar Mission Is Hospitalized After Calling For Investigation

<p>Mikhail Marov, 90, a key consultant to the failed luna-25 mission, has been rushed to hospital following the spacecraft&rsquo;s crash into the surface of the Moon.</p> <p>Marov&rsquo;s health condition arose after he called for an investigation into the expedition&rsquo;s failure. It is not known whether his insistence on transparency regarding the failure of Putin&rsquo;s lunar mission had anything to do with his hospitalization &mdash; though death often follows failure in Putin&rsquo;s Russia.</p> <p>If Putin wanted to look for blame he could examine the oligarchical state that he set up, where a handful of billionaires run everything without supervision. Russian sources are citing corruption inside the country&rsquo;s Roscosmos space agency for the failure of the mission.</p> <p>Russia&rsquo;s space sector corruption includes multimillion-dollar&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/22/russia-launches-crackdown-on-spaceport-corruption-vostochny-cosmodrome" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">graft</a>&nbsp;during the construction of the new Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far East, a facility that was meant to become a crowning jewel of the country&rsquo;s space program.</p> <p>Russia needed the new facility after Kazakhstan shut down the Baikonur launch centre over Russian debt default. Kazakhstan pulled away from Russia after Putin&rsquo;s latest aggressive wars, so in a sense Putin is personally responsible for creating the need for and the conditions for the monumental graft.</p> <p><a href="https://barry-gander.medium.com/scientist-behind-failed-lunar-mission-is-hospitalized-after-calling-for-investigation-caf9b505992b"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>