{"id":4058,"date":"2026-04-07T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/4058\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:14:07","slug":"russia-gets-bad-news-on-space-program-as-us-sends-artemis-2-to-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/4058\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Gets Bad News on Space Program As US Sends Artemis 2 To Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Russia&#8217;s Academy of Sciences has said the launch of three spacecraft &#8211; Luna-28, Luna-29 and Luna-30 &#8211; has been postponed to between 2032 and 2036.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">The academy&#8217;s Vice President Sergei Chernyshev\u00a0announced the delay on Tuesday, according to Russian state-run news agency Interfax, hours after astronauts on board the American Artemis 2 travelled deeper into space than any other human.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">The Luna-29 spacecraft is now scheduled to launch in 2032, the launch of Luna-30 is 2034 and Luna-28 is expected to take off in 2036, the agency reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"11791941\" alt=\"seen from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission on 4 April 2026. 07 APRIL 2026 NASA 04\/07\/2026\" caption=\"View of the visible face of the Moon as seen from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission on 4 April 2026. 07 APRIL 2026 NASA 04\/07\/2026\" credit=\"Europa Press via AP\" sourcealt=\"\" sources=\"[]\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"8256\" height=\"5504\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;aspect-ratio:inherit;object-fit:cover\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP26097282097571.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Academy of Sciences has said the launch of three spacecraft &#8211; Luna-28, Luna-29 and Luna-30 &#8211; has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3006,3007,3008,5,289],"class_list":{"0":"post-4058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-artemis","9":"tag-moon","10":"tag-nasa","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}