A rocket with a lunar landing craft blasts off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years

TALLINN, ESTONIA (AP) – A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft blasted off Friday on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft. The launch from Russia’s Vostochny spaceport in the Far East of the Luna-25 craft to the moon is Russia’s first since