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00:00 It's Russia's first moon mission in nearly five decades.
00:03 A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft
00:05 is blasted off into space, racing
00:07 to land on Earth's satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft.
00:11 The lunar 25 craft is expected to reach the moon on August 23,
00:15 and is expected to spend three to seven days orbiting
00:18 at around 100 kilometers before heading for the surface.
00:22 Russia's space agency says it wants
00:24 to show that Russia is a state capable of delivering
00:26 a payload to the moon.
00:29 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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